Quotes on Best Revenge

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Living well is the best revenge.

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.

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

But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

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

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

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?

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.