Revenge proverbs

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◆ I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ Revenge proves its own executioner.

- John Ford99

◆ Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

- Criss Jami99

◆ The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

- Neal Stephenson99

◆ Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

- Mary Higgins Clark99

◆ We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

- Heinrich Heine99

◆ When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

- Walt Whitman99

◆ The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

- Marcus Aurelius99

◆ I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

- Darren Shan99

◆ Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.

- William Makepeace Thackeray99

◆ Beware the fury of a patient man.

- John Dryden99