Revenge is profitable. [ Gibbon ]

Revenge is sharp-sighted. [ Proverb ]

Revenge is an inhuman word. [ Seneca ]

Even an emmet may seek revenge. [ Proverb ]

Revenge never repairs an injury. [ Proverb ]

Living well is the best revenge. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The malevolent have hidden teeth. [ Publius Syrus ]

Revenge is a kind of wild justice. [ Bacon ]

Kindness nobler ever than revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Coquetry is the revenge of weakness.

To revenge is no valor, but to bear. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who threatens hunts after a revenge. [ Proverb ]

Sweet is revenge - especially to women. [ Byron ]

Forge ting of a wrong is a mild revenge. [ Proverb ]

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
And silent, settles into full revenge. [ Thomson ]

The revenge of an idiot is without mercy. [ Proverb ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

One must be a woman to know how to revenge. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is worse to do than to revenge an injury. [ Proverb ]

With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge. [ Quarles ]

You will never get your revenge of a rich man. [ Proverb ]

He is below himself who is not above an injury. [ Quarles ]

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. [ H. W. Shaw ]

There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]

Neglect will sooner kill an injury than revenge. [ Proverb ]

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ]

Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! [ Cyrano ]

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [ Juvenal ]

The truly great man
Is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The best way of revenge is not to imitate the injury. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Revenge the longer it is delayed the crueler it grows. [ Proverb ]

Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed. [ Proverb ]

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. [ Bacon ]

It costs us more to revenge injuries than to bear them. [ Proverb ]

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. [ Juvenal ]

Revenge is lost in agony, and wild remorse to rage succeeds. [ Byron ]

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. [ Pope ]

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [ Juvenal ]

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. [ Shelley ]

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. [ Lord Kames ]

The best sort of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Men are more prone to revenge injuries, than to requite kindnesses. [ Proverb ]

But revenge is a blessing sweeter than life itself; so rude men feel. [ Juv ]

It is more wisdom sometimes to dissemble wrongs, than to revenge them. [ Proverb ]

Youth and Will may resist excess, but Nature takes revenge in silence. [ A. de Musset ]

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. [ Milton ]

When the rights of hospitality are invaded, revenge is almost allowable. [ Proverb ]

Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge had stomach for them all. [ William Shakespeare ]

I am not sorry that my son loses at play, but that he will seek his revenge. [ Proverb ]

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school. [ Fletcher ]

Since we cannot attain to greatness, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it. [ Montaigne ]

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. [ Sheridan ]

Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. [ Massinger ]

Revenge, the attribute of gods! they stamped it with their great image on our natures. [ Otway ]

Women deceived by men want to marry them: it is a kind of revenge as good as any other. [ Beaumanoir ]

In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over he is superior. [ Proverb ]

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. [ Bacon ]

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]

You will find that silence, or very gentle words, are the most exquisite revenge for reproaches. [ Judge Hale ]

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Haste me to know it; that I with wings as swift as meditation, or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]

Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. [ Bible ]

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude. [ Colton ]

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to bit ourselves at last. [ William Penn ]

Revenge, which, like envy, is an instinct of justice, does but take into its own hands the execution of that natural law which precedes the social. [ Chatfield ]

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it doth singe yourself. We may outrun by violent swiftness that which we run at, and lose by overrunning. [ William Shakespeare ]

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. [ Swift ]

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression. [ Bacon ]

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves. [ Bruyere ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it. [ J. Beaumont ]

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph. [ Fuller ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than he that forbears to avenge himself of wrong is to him who did the wrong. [ Jane Porter ]

Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken. To rescue, to revenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. [ Richter ]

The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]

There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world, - to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second. [ Swift ]