Revenge Quotes Quotes

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Juvenal

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Charles Caleb Colton

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Joseph Hall

While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit.

Francois de Malherbe

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Thomas Fuller

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Sir Henry Bulwer

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures

Samuel Gompers

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.†

A. B. Yehoshua

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Juvenal

The tree of revenge does not carry fruit

Dutch Proverb

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings