Vengeance

In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

Murder’s out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Othello

When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.

PATRICE REDD VECCHIONE, Revenge and Forgiveness

If I were going to set out to oppress other people, I would surely prefer to select for my victims persons whose first response is forgiveness rather than persons whose first response is revenge.

JEFFRIE G. MURPHY, Getting Even

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster: Either condemn or crown your hatred.

PIERRE CORNEILLE, Rodogune

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

FRANCIS BACON, Essays

Let them that are happy talk of piety; he that would work his adversary woe must take no account of laws.

EURIPIDES, Ion

Universal though the instinct for revenge may be, it is much stronger in some of us than others. And those who have it in abundance apparently pay something of a price.

ELLIS COSE, Bone to Pick