There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
The tree of revenge does not carry fruit
Dutch Proverb
Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Juvenal
By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater torments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men.
Sir William
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer
'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
Benjamin Franklin
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius
Storing up pain, nurturing your hurt, plotting revenge - all these punish you more than they do the backstabbers.
Les Parrott
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
Mark Twain
Revenge is a confession of pain
Latin Proverb
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca