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Quotes about Revenge
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“Don't get mad, get even.”
“Success is the sweetest revenge.”
“The best revenge is massive success.”
“Surviving well is your finest revenge.”
“One good act of vengeance deserves another.”
“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”
“No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.”
“You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.”
“Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.”
“A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.”
“Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.”
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.”
“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”
“Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.”
“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”
“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”
“You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
“Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.”
“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
“She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.”
“The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.”
“And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
“That old law about ''an eye for an eye'' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
“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 shall we not revenge?”
“What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.”