Quotations about

Revenge

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

—Paul Gauguin

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge—but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

—Ann Radcliffe

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

—Mahatma Gandhi

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

—Niccolo Machiavelli

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

—Scott Adams

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

—Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

—Francis Bacon

Live well. It is the greatest revenge.

—The Talmud

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

—Ronnie Shakes

Living hell is the best revenge.

—Adrienne E. Gusoff