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Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret. By Michael J. Sullivan Revenge Regret Bittersweet Fruit Leaves

Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. By George Orwell Powerless Revenge Removed Act Commit

Revenge has it's own special taste By Anonymous Revenge Taste Special

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. By Jane Goldman Vengeance Act Turning Anger Recovery

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !. By Anthony Trollope Give Avenged Offend Generally Punished

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. By Jeremy Taylor Revenge Stone Hill Violence Motion

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell. By Walter Scott Revenge Hell Sweetest Morsel Mouth

The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. By Wes Fesler Conscience Pleasure Revenge Fleeting Emotion

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process. By Park Chan-Wook Process Point Revenge Completion

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. By Edgar Allan Poe Redresser Wrong Unredressed Retribution Overtakes

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. By Jo Nesbo Reflex Evolving Revenge Thinking Man

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance. By Dennis R. Miller Offenses Retribution Hawks Vengeance Woman

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

The best form of revenge is success By Peter James Success Form Revenge

Revenge is more wild, less calculated ... deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) By Vince Flynn Revenge Wild Calculated Mitch Rapp

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. By John Milton Revenge Bitter Sweet Recoils Ere

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall. By Emily Thorne Revenge Life Reaction Action Equal

THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice. By John H. Walton Retribution Principle Suffer Wickedness Conviction

The best revenge is massive success. By Frank Sinatra Success Revenge Massive

I want you to understand me.This isn't vengeance.This is punishment. By Ilona Andrews Punishment Understand Methis Vengeancethis

Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison of bitterness consume a soul. It was to be that time ... Two worlds collide and find a common link. A plan was made, a price was paid and revenge was set in motion. By Elizabeth Bourgeret Time Intended Pass Sweet Painful

Just vengeance does not call for punishment. By Pierre Corneille Punishment Vengeance Call

Revenge is the best revenge. By Paul Hoffman Revenge

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. By Friedrich Schiller Revenge Murder Despair Barren Dreadful

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams ... never for reality. By Alfred Bester Revenge Damnable Frustration Dreams Reality

Revenge truly is sweet. It takes you to a dark place, but, man, it satisfies a thirst. Then By Trevor Noah Revenge Sweet Man Place Thirst

Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There'll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It's a reversion to constant, visceral fear. By Ian Mcewan Night Exacted Hundred Times Sleepless

The only revenge worth having is success. By Gertrude Atherton Success Revenge Worth

I'm not forgiveness and redemption. I'm violent retaliation and vengeance. By Amy A. Bartol Redemption Forgiveness Vengeance Violent Retaliation

Give me anger.Flash.Give me vengeance.Flash.Give me total and complete justified retribution.Flash. By Chuck Palahniuk Give Retributionflash Total Complete Justified

Revenge is living well, without you. By Junot Diaz Revenge Living

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge. By Anne Rice Beaten Concern Point Revenge Told

Revenge is the single most satisfying feeling in the world! By Jr Revenge World Single Satisfying Feeling

Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person. By George W. Bush Person Put Revengeful

Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it. By L.m. Montgomery Revenge Hurts Inflict

Revenge is an inhuman word. By Seneca The Younger Revenge Word Inhuman

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. By Percy Bysshe Shelley Revenge Age Naked Idol Worship

revenge knows no boundaries! By Eric Jerome Dickey Revenge Boundaries

Do not seek revenge and call it justice. By Cassandra Clare Justice Seek Revenge Call

There is no pleasure in the world to match the giddiness of revenge. By John Beachem Revenge Pleasure World Match Giddiness

Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own. By Addison Moore Revenge Gun Hands Enemies Loaded

Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy. By Raheel Farooq Revenge Enemy Spare

Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge By Christopher Zzenn Loren Hell Karma Revenge Cowards

Revenge can be bitter sweet, but if you sit back and watch, karma can be pure entertainment By Narendra Nekkanti Revenge Sweet Watch Karma Entertainment

Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems By Sarah Jakes Revenge Sweet

Revenge was a fierce calling from deep within his soul, a cry, a demand for due recompense. By Madison Thorne Grey Revenge Soul Cry Recompense Fierce

In moments of pain, we seek revenge. By Ami Ayalon Pain Revenge Moments Seek

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment. By Penn Jillette Vengeance Punishment

One good act of vengeance deserves another. By Jon Jefferson Good Act Vengeance Deserves

Revenge is the capitalism of the poor: conserve the original wound, defer immediate gratification, fatten the first insult with new insults, invest and reinvest spite, and ke waiting for the perfect moment to strike back. By Aravind Adiga Revenge Poor Conserve Wound Defer

Revenge is not sweet; it is gloomy and a waste of time. By Anna Bayes Revenge Sweet Time Gloomy Waste

Revenge is my specialty. By Alan Bradley Revenge Specialty

There's always enough retribution to be dealt. By Amber Silvia Dealt Retribution

Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours. By Erica O'rourke Pain Pay Justice Making Revenge

Success is the best revenge. By Debasish Mridha Success Revenge

Everything evil is revenge. By Otto Weininger Revenge Evil

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ... By Elizabeth Bowen Revenge Justice Wild Kind

They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer. By Joanne Harris Revenge Worth Finer

Forgiveness achieves more than vengeance. By Matshona Dhliwayo Forgiveness Vengeance Achieves

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. By Jerome Isaac Friedman Sign Nature Forgiveness Revenge Gentle

Forgiveness is truly the greatest expression of revenge. By Robert Palasciano Forgiveness Revenge Greatest Expression

Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. By Charles Caleb Colton Punctual Revenge Debt Sincere Paying

revenge is an admission that we have been hurt. That cannot be a great mind which is disturbed by injury. He who has hurt you must be either stronger or weaker than yourself. If he be weaker, spare him: if he be stronger, spare yourself. By Seneca. Revenge Admission Hurt Spare Stronger

My vengeance is my guilt By Ovid Guilt Vengeance

So all of this agony was for nothing?""You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing.""You were cruel.""So were you.""You hurt me.""And you hurt me. Is revenge everything you dreamed it might be? By Sylvain Reynard Hurt Nothing Cruel You Agony

Vengeance is a sword pointed inward. By Molly Greene Vengeance Sword Pointed

Vengeance succeeds in spanning generations and encompassing the world. It transcends time and space. One should not be surprised that in the ancient world vengeance was taken to be sacred. By Rene Girard Succeeds Spanning Generations Encompassing Vengeance

Justice is for the victim. Vengeance is for the survivor. By Rachel Vincent Justice Victim Vengeance Survivor

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil. By Billy Graham Revenge Violence Easily Descends Endless

There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one.-Christopher By Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Christopher Justice Revenge One Met

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders. By Marilyn Vos Savant Revenge Involved Feels Directly Justice

Vengeance." "It is a sweet cup with bitter dregs, but I have grown accustomed to it. I have drunk my fill of it, yet it is never empty. By T.c. Southwell Vengeance Dregs Sweet Cup Bitter

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. By Arthur Schopenhauer Vengeance Conscience Tear Heart Torment

Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left. By Chris Bradford Revenge Selfdefeating Left Eat

The best formula for revenge is success. By Kid Rock Success Formula Revenge

Robert Nozick [a Havard philosopher, famous for his book "Anarchy, State and Utopia"] defined revenge as delivering the message that you know what someone has done, and it doesn't involve hurting them or doing anything to them beyond that. It's just delivering the message that their crime has been noted not just by its victims, because the victim might be dead, but by another who has a different moral view and will challenge the perpetrator's view. By Errol Morris Anarchy Nozick State Utopia Havard

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing. By Mason Cooley Revenge Nourishing Sweet

The greatest revenge is massive success. By Les Brown Success Greatest Revenge Massive

Vengeance is waste of time By Amish Tripathi Vengeance Time Waste

Revenge is never the answer By Kasie West Revenge Answer

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. By Ziad K. Abdelnour Revenge Mind Weak Pleasure Narrow

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorsea malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. By Charles Caleb Colton Blood Revenge Relapse Disease Incurable

Success is the sweetest revenge. By Vanessa Williams Success Revenge Sweetest

Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ. By Ron Baratono Seeking Turmoil Christ Revenge Reaching

Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway By Ajahn Brahm Revenge Seek Karma Bastards

Revenge is calmer, cold, and calculating. It has a plan. It's willing to wait. Sometimes it only has to simmer for a couple of days, sometimes weeks or months. The longer revenge cooks, the more potent it becomes. Unleashed at a toxic level, it can take the carrier with it. By Adrienne Wilder Cold Calmer Calculating Revenge Plan

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair. By Terrence Real Revenge Communication Repair Perverse Form

Payback is inevitable. By Tom Fallwell Payback Inevitable

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. By Philip Massinger Revenge Souls Makes Thirsty Dropsy

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to geting pussy. By Tupac Shakur Revenge Pussy Sweetest Joy Geting

A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma. By Keshia Chante God Revenge Karma Fool Seek

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. By Juvenal Revenge Find Mind Abject Pleasure

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. By Austin O'malley Revenge Dog Biting Bit

Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. By Neil Gaiman Vengeance Ending Road Wise Avoid

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge. By Madonna Revenge Lessons Hurt Learn Happiness

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. By Meir Kahane Place Trait Justified Revenge Time

Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst. By Jonas Jonasson Revenge Politics Worst Worse Thing

I don't believe in revenge. It's unnecessary. I prefer using a very discreet psychological intervention topped of with a short burst of extreme violence! By Jose N. Harris Revenge Unnecessary Violence Prefer Discreet

I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. It By Edgar Allan Poe Punish Impunity Unredressed Wrong Redresser

The pleasure of being successful in revenge disappears quickly ... Like a snowflake in the sun ... By Gosho Aoyama Quickly Pleasure Successful Revenge Disappears