100 Quotes About Revenge

Revenge is an ugly thing. It's like making a pie in the face of someone who has wronged you, spitting in the face of someone who has done you wrong, and then eating it. What joy can there be in that? For men especially, revenge is not only unjust, it's also dangerous. There are many things that can make us angry, but there are few things that make us angrier than when we think we've been snubbed by someone who is more important to us than our own life Read more

Revenge is ugly. But revenge is necessary.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the...
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If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. Shannon L. Alder
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each,...
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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. Euripides
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are...
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We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged Heinrich Heine
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It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. Seamus Heaney
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath...
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch...
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May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch Keisha Keenleyside
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I don't want tea, " said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."" Unfortunately, " said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing. Cassandra Clare
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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Neal Stephenson
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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa, " intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs. Eoin Colfer
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer,...
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If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. Gina Barreca
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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Revenge is sweet and not fattening. Alfred Hitchcock
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at...
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I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly. Mark Twain
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No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed. E.a. Bucchianeri
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius
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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge. Unknown
Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first &...
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Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do. Unknown
If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced...
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If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity . Unknown
I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate,...
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I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy. Unknown
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Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics, humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong. Unknown
When people support you when you have done something wrong....
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When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you. Unknown
A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially...
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A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it. Suzanne Collins
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Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past. Shannon L. Alder
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice...
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Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice. Criss Jami
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Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don't have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go! Love, Your Guardian Angel. Shannon L. Alder
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than...
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The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. Frederick Rolfe
It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins...
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It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations. E.a. Bucchianeri
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Mfalme Sulemani alikuwa mtu mwenye hekima kuliko wote ulimwenguni. Anatushauri, “Adui yako akiwa ana njaa, mpe chakula; Tena akiwa ana kiu, mpe maji ya kunywa; Maana utatia makaa ya moto kichwani pake; Na BWANA atakupa thawabu (Mithali 25:21-22). Yesu anasema jambo fulani linalofanana sana na hilo katika mafundisho Yake yaliyofuata (Mathayo 5:44-45). Kitendo cha kutukanwa, kupigwa, kushtakiwa au kulazimishwa kubeba mzigo mzito usio wa kwako kinaweza kusababisha mafutu mabaya kabisa katika asili ya binadamu. Yaani, chuki, hasira, ukatili na hata vurugu. Lakini pale wale waliobarikiwa kuwa na hekima wanapojikuta katika majaribu makubwa kama hayo tabia yao haitakiwi kuwa ya shari, inda au ya kulipiza kisasi. Bali inatakiwa kuwa ya kusaidia, kuwa na ridhaa ya kutenda mambo mema, na kuwa mwema kwa wengine siku zote. . Enock Maregesi
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the...
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The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.- Kenshin to Eiji Nobuhiro Watsuki
The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.
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The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy. Sandy HyattJames
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. Alberto Manguel
She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain,...
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She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved. Grace Willows
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make...
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Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride Grace Willows
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or...
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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees. Grace Willows
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or...
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You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by Grace WillowsComing this summer to Amazon Kindle and paperback. Grace Willows
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
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No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Having second thoughts?” Puck’s voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. “I thought we put this behind us for now.”“ Never, ” I said, matching his stare. “I can’t ever take it back, Goodfellow. I’m still going to kill you. I swore to her I would.” Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. “One day, ” I said softly. “One day you’ll look up, and I’ll be there. That’s the only ending for us. Don’t ever forget. Julie Kagawa
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You can’t get the blood out. Steven Ramirez
I have joyfully done much evil in my life to...
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I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus) Rudyard Kipling
In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being...
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In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are way less likely to love someone just because...
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We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to...
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Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love,...
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There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge. Ally Carter
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There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge. Ally Carter
Revenge is a dish best served published!
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Revenge is a dish best served published! Lisa Kovanda
You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when...
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You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. Shannon L. Alder
I was head over heels, now I just see my...
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I was head over heels, now I just see my heel in your head Alexandra Harvey
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The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you and you haven't let go, every time you see him, you grow breathless or your heart skips a beat. If the trauma was really severe, you dream of revenge. Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven't forgiven weighs you down. It's a personal choice whether or not to let go. No one can tell you how long to mourn a death or rage over a rape. But you can't move forward until you break that chain. Leymah Gbowee
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I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. William Shakespeare
What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death...
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What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you. Jackson Lanzing
Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science,...
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Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art? Mark Lawrence
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It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. Christopher Hitchens
Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every...
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Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness. Kilroy J. Oldster
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And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe that. Revenge would let her think about her parents without a cold knot forming in her stomach. She would be able to dream without seeing their drowned faces and hearing their voices cry out for her help. Cassandra Clare
If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts...
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If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness Sunday Adelaja
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Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off. Joyce Rachelle
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[We learn] from heartbreak that love is not for idealists, but realists; it should always be passionate, but it is always dangerous. That infatuation is a game of power, but love leaves us powerless--and it is our dignity in its aftermath that defines us. Unknown
In the art of war, if you know the enemy...
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In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battles. But if you know only yourself and not the enemy, for every victory, there will also be defeat. Emily Thorne
I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing...
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I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin Shinobu Ohtaka
When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks...
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When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. Criss Jami
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And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from dying in battle. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. The dead are not your masters. Terry Pratchett
Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her...
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Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy. Omar El Akkad
Give me a book and I may change the world,...
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Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change. Raouf Reda Habib
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[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be. Unknown
I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The...
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I’m tired of your revenge, your anger, your hate. The war is killing you. Sally Green
I have learned that it is one thing to kill...
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I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall of the gods, but quite another to take a helpless man's life... Bernard Cornwell
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Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams. V.S. Carnes
Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural. William Makepeace Thackeray
Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
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Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks. Shannon L. Alder
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has...
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. Ambrose Bierce
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In a perfect scenario, we'd all know our opponents… but the thing is… maybe it is even more important to know yourself… because, you shall pull it through, as long as you're well aware of what is it you're capable of pulling through in the first place. Gina Wings
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No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why. Siri Hustvedt
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The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship. Shannon L. Alder
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others--...
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Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. Shannon L. Alder
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Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price for this change. And she does take a form of revenge on both her father and her suitor: she refuses to give in to them. In the end, she has her triumph. Azar Nafisi
Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river...
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Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father. Bamigboye Olurotimi
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Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come, " Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow—we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman. Frank Herbert
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If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s. Jonathan Edwards
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Her gaze wavered towards one of the books on the sales counter beside the register, a hardcover copy of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with many of the pages dog-eared and stained with coffee and tea. The store owner caught her looking at it and slid it across the counter towards her. “You ever read Hamlet?” he questioned.“ I tried to when I was in high school, ” said Mandy, picking up the book and flipping it over to read the back. “I mean, it’s expected that everyone should like Shakespeare’s books and plays, but I just….” her words faltered when she noticed him laughing to himself. “What’s so funny, Sir?” she added, slightly offended.“… Oh, I’m not laughing at you, just with you, ” said the store owner. “Most people who say they love Shakespeare only pretend to love his work. You’re honest Ma’am, that’s all. You see, the reason you and so many others are put-off by reading Shakespeare is because reading his words on paper, and seeing his words in action, in a play as they were meant to be seen, are two separate things… and if you can find a way to relate his plays to yourself, you’ll enjoy them so much more because you’ll feel connected to them. Take Hamlet for example — Hamlet himself is grieving over a loss in his life, and everyone is telling him to move on but no matter how hard he tries to, in the end all he can do is to get even with the ones who betrayed him.”“… Wow, when you put it that way… sure, I think I’ll buy a copy just to try reading, why not?” Mandy replied with a smile. Rebecca McNutt
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As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there. Dada Bhagwan
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Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister prophecies of coming catastrophe. In this way arose feudal Socialism; half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future, at times by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core, but always ludicrous in its effects, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. Karl Marx
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And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was. . Christopher Hitchens
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This tottered ensign of my ancestors Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea Whereof we got the name of Mortimer, Will I advance upon these castle-walls. Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston! Christopher Marlowe
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History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores. Carl Bridenbaugh
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Don’t worry, I’m not quitting. I’ve decided I’m going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.-- Kim to Abe Devon Rhodes
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An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
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Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. Criss Jami
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...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters. Emm Cole
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Don’t fear! Take care of revenge and hatred by hitting the haters with love and kindness. Debasish Mridha
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You think I don’t know pain?” Puck shook his head at me. “Or loss? I’ve been around a lot longer than you, prince! I know what love is, and I’ve lostmy fair share, too. Just because we have a different way of handling it, doesn’t mean I don’t have scars of my own.”“ Name one, ” I scoffed. “Give me one instance where you haven’t–”“ Meghan Chase! ” Puck roared, startling me into silence. I blinked, and he sneered at me. “Yeah, your highness. I know what loss is. I’ve loved thatgirl since before she knew me. But I waited. I waited because I didn’t want to lie about who I was. I wanted her to know the truth before anything else. So I waited, and I did my job. For years, I protected her, biding my time, until the day she went into the Nevernever after her brother. And then youcame along. And I saw how she looked at you. And for the first time, I wanted to kill you as much as you wanted to kill me. . Julie Kagawa
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Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours. Erica ORourke
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Do not feel ill will toward others. It will only bring negative energy into your life which will fester and grow as you let that anger into your heart. Hunger for revenge, for your pain to be put onto others, only hurts you more. Trust in yourself that you may recover from the pain they have caused and allow yourself to move on. Avina Celeste
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Rage and revenge sat in his heart fanned by time and silence. Before he could realise anything, he was engulfed in flames. Everything he touched, lost its existence in his life. Turning him into a monster, who destroys everything in a daylight but cries in dark and silence. Akshay Vasu
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My life is nothing more than bad timing separated by unimaginable moments of tragedy. I'd reconciled my pain with the promise of revenge ... until her. Jewel E. Ann
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Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge. Felix O. Hartmann
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Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see her. But I caught a glimpse, enough to reveal the rope of lustrous pearls she wore. Pearls that were there for a thin white hand to lift and nervously, out of long habit, twist and untwist into a knot. Only one women I knew did that--and she was the perfect one to wear black, and should run to hide! Forever hide! Color all her days black! Every last one! . V.C. Andrews
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When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. Unknown
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I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just ink and stains. This was life and I was holding it in my hands. I drew my eyes back up and beneath the flickering streetlight and the throng of drunken cattle, I saw nothing else but the dead girl. Somebody out there had taken her life, her heart, and there I was with her warm, sticky blood. Feeling the most alive I’d felt in years. I had to find him. I just had to. . Charlotte Munro
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A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones Munia Khan
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Why does it seem more difficult to heal a wounded ego than a wounded heart? Is it because the heart accepts the cold hard reality of rejection and tries to move on, while the ego has no capacity to act likewise? And while the heart weeps, the ego desires revenge: an eye for an eye, no matter what it takes? Gina Wings
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His heart is the rhythm, mine is the echo. A. Zavarelli