Revenge Quotes

Winning — is a best revenge.

The hand of Vengeance found the bed
To which the purple tyrant fled;
The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head,
And became a tyrant in his stead.

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William Blake

You and I seek the same thing. We are trying to establish the peace that Jiraiya Sensei so desired. You and I are not different at all. We each act according to our own sense justice. The justice I delivered to the Leaf Village is no different from what you are trying to do to me. The pain of losing something dear to you is the same. And both of us know that pain all too well. You have your justice, and I have mine. We are both ordinary men, driven to seek vengeance under the banner of justice. However, if there is justice in vengeance, then justice will only breed more vengeance. And trigger a cycle of hatred. We are living in the middle of such a phenomenom right now. We know what the past has been and we can predict what the future will be. That is history as we know it. So we cannot help but believe that human beings are incapable of understanding each other. The world of the ninja is ruled by hatred.

Episode 165

Justice, Jurisdiction

— You eνer heard about the Rat Cook?
— No. Who's he?
— Just a cook in the Night's Watch. He was angry at the King for something, I don't remember. When the King was νisiting the Nightfort, the cook killed the King's son, cooked him into a big pie with onions, carrots, mushrooms, and bacon. That night he served the pie to the King. He liked the taste of his son so much, he asked for a second slice. The Gods turned the cook
into a giant white rat who could only eat his own young. He's been roaming the Nightfort eνer since, deνouring his own babies. But no matter what he does, he's always hungry.
— If the Gods turned eνery killer into a giant white rat. . .
— It wasn't for murder the Gods cursed the Rat Cook or for serving the King's son in a pie. He killed a guest beneath his roof. That's something the Gods can't forgiνe.

But… if there is justice in revenge then that same justice will breed only more revenge… and trigger a cycle of hatred.

Excuse, Justification

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 never a straight line. It's a forest. And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... to get lost... to forget where you came in.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Hattori Hanzo

Let this be a warning to you not to take vengeance into your own hands.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Human, People

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

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Gladiator (2000)

Maximus Decimus Meridius

— What are you doing?
— I'm dying.
— You can't die. You need to live to take revenge.
— I don't care about revenge.
— You coward. A little misfortune and you're giving up.
— Misfor... Misfortune?
— You lost your hand.
— My sword hand I was that hand.
— You have a taste, one taste of the real world where people have important things taken from them, and you whine and cry and quit.

Revenge is a dish best served with my dick.

— Is this your way of getting revenge?
— No. It's just the way I see things.

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Once Upon a Time in America

David «Noodles» Aaronson

Maximilian «Max» Bercovicz

You believe that to defeat an enemy who will stop at nothing, you must stop at nothing. How is that different than blood must have blood?

When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, It seems proof like no other that not only does God exist, you're doing his will.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Beatrix Kiddo / « The Bride» / «Black Mamba»

God

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

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Austin O'Malley

— You're vigilantes.
— No, no, no. A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely.
— Which is?
— Legend, Mr. Wayne.