- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Revenge Quotes
Quotes on the urge to settle the score.
This page gathers quotes built around revenge, a theme that ranges from cinematic vigilante stories about loss and payback to older lines warning that jealousy and vengeance rarely leave anyone at peace. Some entries lean toward Anger quotes, since the two feelings often travel together.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Disaster
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
- Nov 07, 2020
Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
- Good
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.
- Forgiveness
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
- Getting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020