Quotes of Retaliation - somelinesforyou

“ Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. ”

- John Milton

“ To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ It is useless to meet revenge with revenge. It will heal nothing. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ Let them stew in their own grease (or juice). ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. ”

- Juvenal

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

- Doug Horton

“ Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ”

- George Santayana

“ Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. ”

- Juvenal

“ Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. ”

- Jane Porter

“ Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. ”

- Ralph McGill

“ Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could. ”

- Roman Polanski

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

- Pierre Corneille

“ I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. ”

- Lionel Jospin

“ Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. ”

- John Ford

“ Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. ”

- Faith Popcorn

“ The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ”

- Juvenal

“ But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last To basest things. ”

- John Milton

“ Behold, on wrongSwift vengeance waits. ”

- Homer
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