Revenge Quotes
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself
Niccolo Machiavelli
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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, Jr.
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Revenge is a confession of pain
Latin Proverb
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind
Juvenal
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Subject: Forgiveness Quotes :: Revenge QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man`s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Subject: Forgiveness QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you`d never stare long enough to get if she`d ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
Chuck Palahniuk
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[On the subject of his character`s inevitable death in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)] "I don`t mind dying, I just don`t wanna go out like some punk."
Samuel Jackson
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[quote by Rachel Roberts, Harrison`s fourth wife]: Rex cannot be pleased. Servants have got slapped with his tongue or hand. Eventually his servants and wives leave him. Rex is one of those who thinks living well is the best revenge. It may be, but the re...
Rex Harrison
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[quote by Rachel Roberts, Harrison`s fourth wife]: Rex cannot be pleased. Servants have got slapped with his tongue or hand. Eventually his servants and wives leave him. Rex is one of those who thinks living well is the best revenge. It may be, but the re...
Rex Harrison
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(on the technology used to film Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)): The advances have been phenomenal. There is a monitor on the camera there that is static, a monitor on the crane, and all these monitors scattered all over the place. Wh...
Christopher Lee
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[On Irréversible (2002)] "Yeah, I think that there is something saying, I say the line, that revenge is a human right. I don`t think that it`s a human right, but it`s a normal reaction."
Vincent Cassel
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What we`ve done is set in process the idea that there`s an organization out there and Bond is now after them. That`s where we will pick up the next film. There`s going to be a real element of revenge. - interview with David Giammarco, on the plotline for ...
Daniel Craig
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Regarding Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005): "Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don`t like it, they don`t have to see it."
George Lucas
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I had a mediocre academic career, so playing a good student is fun for me. It`s like sweet revenge. I`m constantly learning stuff now that I didn`t even know before.
Liza Weil
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I don`t play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.
Vincent Price
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When a hero decides to take revenge, their hitherto tedious life is ended and they are born again as a completely different person. With the completion of revenge in sight, the hero has to face the fact that their pleasure up until that point must come to...
Chan-wook Park
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When a hero decides to take revenge, their hitherto tedious life is ended and they are born again as a completely different person. With the completion of revenge in sight, the hero has to face the fact that their pleasure up until that point must come to...
Chan-wook Park
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Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn`t act on it.
Chan-wook Park
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[on Jaws: The Revenge (1987)] I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Michael Caine
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Revenge is a very good motivation if you can direct it. It`s healthy. Very healthy.
Michael Douglas
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On Thriller - en grym film (1974) and its influences on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "And that is, of all the revenge movies I`ve ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There`s never been anything as tough as that m...
Quentin Tarantino
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On Thriller - en grym film (1974) and its influences on Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003): "And that is, of all the revenge movies I`ve ever seen, that is definitely the roughest. The roughest revenge movie ever made! There`s never been anything as tough as that m...
Quentin Tarantino
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Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that I could.
Roman Polanski
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[On modelling]: "I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I`d always wanted to be a model and thought, `Right, he`s going to see me everywhere.` I was relentless in my pursuit of modelling. It was revenge."
Jane March
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Speaking about the 2003 Iraq war: "You can`t beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. These days it only matters who`s in charge. Right now that`s us -- for a while at least. Our opponents ar...
George Clooney
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