Quotes with revenge

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  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Thomas Wilson It costs more to revenge than to bear with injuries.
    Maximes 75
    Thomas Wilson
    English bishop and writer (1663 - 1755)
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  • Marquis de Sade Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Martin Luther King Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Mary Stuart No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
    Mary Stuart
     
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  • David Lehman Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
    David Lehman
     
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Iris Murdoch Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Mario Puzo Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
    De Peetvader p. 395
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Francis Bacon Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Juvenal Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Austin O'Malley Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Edward Gibbon Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anne Brontë Revenge! No — what good would that do? — it would make him no better, and me no happier.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • John Milton Revenge, at first though sweet,
    Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 171
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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