Revenge Quotes

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Marya Mannes

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.

Keshia Chante

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

Albert Camus

Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

Alfred Bester

The most effective moments in the theatre are those that appeal to basic and commonplace emotions--love of woman, love of home, love of country, love of right, anger, jealousy, revenge, ambition, lust, and treachery.

CLAYTON HAMILTON

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince\'s part to pardon.

Francis Bacon

Drinking, eating, shopping,revenge,,rebound sex,drugs or whatever your poison may be will number the pain - but that's all.

Greg Behrendt

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hosea Ballou

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Sir Bernard Rowland Crick

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr

All creatures killthere seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens