101+ Best Revenge Quotes, And Sayings

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. – Eddie Vedder

When you have the power to screw people over and you don’t–well, that’s when you get to show who you really are.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Confucius

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. – Jodi Picoult

Revenge Quotes

They say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?

Live a good and honorable life. Then, when you are older, you can look back and enjoy it a second time. —Dalai Lama

When you truly understand karma, then you realize you are responsible for everything in your life. —Keanu Reeves

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. – Max Lucado

I’m going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I’m a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.~ Marcus Aurelius

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

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

Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them. – Ben Franklin

I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.

It is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.—Daisaku Ikeda

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances, and planning murder.

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction. – Wayne Gerard Trotman

The way of revenge lies simply in forcing one’s way into a place and being cut down. There is no shame in this. By thinking you must complete the job you will run out of time.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ― Mahatma Gandhi

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The universe does not carry debts. It always returns back to you what you gave it. ―Drishti Bablani

Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one. – Janet Morris

In revenge and in love, a woman is more barbarous than a man. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Troy shall overturn the Grecian state, And sweet revenge her conquering sons shall call, To crush the people that conspired her fall.

When they say revenge is a dish best served up cold they were wrong … revenge for me has instead turned out to be a dish served hot, steamy, and very satisfying!

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. ― Jodi Picoult

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. —James Baldwin

He that has revenge in his power and does not use it, is the greater man.

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled. – Richelle E. Goodrich

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact revenge on the brutalized child that resides within.

The best revenge is massive success. ~ Frank Sinatra

The nearer I approached your habitation, the more deeply did I feel the spirit of revenge enkindled in my heart.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter. – Isaac Burrow

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.

Realize that everything connects to everything else. —Leonardo da Vinci

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. – Eddie Vedder

But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

The best revenge is to improve yourself. ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib

I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated, and cast into a tomb, have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.—Wayne Dyer

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ― Criss Jami

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people are the best revenge. – Madonna

There are the waves, and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and free will. —Kuan Yin

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

‘Tis nobler to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart—that of vengeance.

On him that takes revenge, revenge shall be taken, and by a real evil he shall dearly pay for the goods that are but airy and fantastical; it is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.—Adeline Yen Mah

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst. – Jonas Jonasson

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. —Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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?~ William Shakespeare

I have seen the man I loved preparing to become the murderer of my son! She said these words with such overwhelming grief, in such a desperate voice, that when he heard it a sob rose in the count’s throat. The lion was tamed, the avenging angel overcome.

Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time. ― Anna Bayes

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning. —F. Paul Wilson

Revenge is starting a fire you can’t control. – Marty Rubin

I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek-turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~ Josh Billings

Yes, if he is clumsy and poor; no, if he is a millionaire and adroit.

Always stay gracious, the best revenge is your paper. – Beyonce

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed. – Adeline Yen Mah

Sometimes you get what’s coming around. And sometimes you are what’s coming around. ―Jim Butcher

An eye for an eye is never enough. Never, never, never.

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

Could all be lies? Could all be part of a revenge scheme, planned during his decade behind bars. But if true, then what? […] Never mind. Answers soon. Nothing is insoluble.

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

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green. – Francis Bacon

Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

But this was what happened when you didn’t want to visit and confront the past: The past starts visiting and confronting you. —Bret Easton Ellis

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

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. ~ Oscar Arias

Our revenge will be achieved not through subjugation but by contagion.

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

The old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.– Martin Luther King Jr.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. —H. Raven Rose

If you feel like you need revenge, getting it won’t help you. – Steve Maraboli

So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it evil. It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.~ Hiawatha

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

No matter the reason, revenge causes a cycle that continues and never ends. It poisons the lives of everyone around you, close to you. Seeking revenge becomes all that you desire but comes at a hefty price.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings

You tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?

Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma. —Paramahansa Yogananda

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it. – Suzanne Collins

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. ~ Sulla

Consider none you’re superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge.

If karma meant that every time a person hurts you, you are to ensure they suffer a similar fate;

Revenge proves its own executioner. ― John Ford

And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same? —Alexandra Katehakis

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings

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

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and manipulate. ~ David Anthony Durham

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

I don’t wait for karma to come around and bite you. I made it myself. It’s called sweet revenge.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.—Anne Lamott

Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can’t get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don’t care who you are. What goes around comes around. That’s how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.

Most times, how you treat your children is how they grow up to treat you. —Terry Mark

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. – Ralph Steadman

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

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

Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.—Wayne Gerard Trotman

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.

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