65 Seeking Revenge Quotes

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Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen. — Vladimir Makarov

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. — Douglas Horton

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself. — Doug Horton

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion. — Jeremy Taylor

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

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. — Samuel Johnson

Success is the best revenge. - Kanye West

Success is the best revenge. — Kanye West

Revenge is an inhuman word. — Seneca

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. - Tupac Shakur

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy. — Tupac Shakur

The revenge that is postponed is not forgotten. — Icelandic Proverbs

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. — Juvenal

Living well is the best revenge. — George Herbert

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. — Confucius

The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is massive success. — Frank Sinatra

Short Seeking Revenge Quotes

  • Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. — Emile M. Cioran
  • Vengeance is without foresight. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. — Juvenal
  • No more tears now; I will think about revenge. — Mary, Queen of Scots
  • The best revenge in the world is success. — Suge Knight
  • To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. — Pierre Corneille
  • The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. — Marcus Aurelius
  • In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. — Alexander Pope
  • Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. — Confucius

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Seeking revenge quote The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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More Seeking Revenge Quotes

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. — Albert Einstein

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. — Amy Adams

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him. — Baltasar Gracian

Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives. — George W. Bush

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred. — Seneca

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically. — Izzeldin Abuelaish

Do not seek revenge and call it justice. — Cassandra Clare

When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible. — Yanar Mohammed

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil. — Tim LaHaye

All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine. — Margaret Atwood

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy. — Joe Slovo

Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples. — Pope John Paul II

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot. — Wes Craven

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge. — Bruce Springsteen

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

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge. — Theodor Adorno

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight. — Natalie Clifford Barney

You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore. — George Clooney

You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else. — Buck Brannaman

Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it. — Jean De La Bruyere

In moments of pain, we seek revenge. — Ami Ayalon

Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway — Ajahn Brahm

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit. — Robert Greene

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. — Christopher Paolini

Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I demand only this...that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few. Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten. Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time. Senators, the war is over. — Julius Caesar

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves. — Christopher Eccleston

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul. — James Mace

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge. — George W. Bush

There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take; there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening. — Ashly Lorenzana

It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain. — Thomas Dreier

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves. — Ken Kesey

Let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen. — Christopher Paolini

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge. — Neil Gaiman

Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen." he continued at a slower pace, " of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to say"Garrow to Roran p 64 — Christopher Paolini

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