"And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes""

"At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti."

"Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu."

"Minuti Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio."

"All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness. I suffer becomes You will suffer. And let us not lie. Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target. However destructive in the long run, it serves a useful purpose for a time."

"No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir Thomas Browne. Sweet is revenge, especially to women, wrote Lord Byron. And I say, I wonder why, boys. I wonder why."

"How sweet to be an idiot At my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy."

"It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey."

"One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast."

"Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you"

"A man with no friends, only live for revenge Live his life off the henge, cut, through a thousand men Blade swing with the force of a cyclone Cut crystal and bone, pistol and chrome Stand in my path, you're a dead man I cut the whole world in half for the Number One headband Quest of a lonely soul, on a lonely road"

"If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out."

"Professor X: Oppression is no excuse for vengeance -- for murder. I wonder... does the death of innocent people -- cut down on the streets as they flee -- free you? I think not."

"In certain, extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue - natural justice. This is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment."

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

"Revenge may just be the ultimate Hallmark Card. Its as if You're saying "You have effected My Life so much I feel compelled to respond in kind". When though of like that, I guess the old Cliche is True. Revenge is Sweet."

"'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury."

"Living well is the best revenge."

"Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me; If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.""

"Ah no, lasciarti in pace, non vo' questo contento, tu non nascesti, audace, per dare a me tormento, e forse ancor per ridere, di mia infelicità! Già la speranza sola delle vendette mie quest'anima consola, e giubilar mi fa!"

"Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved"

"Repudiate the repudiators."

"La vendetta, oh, la vendetta, è un piacer serbato ai saggi. L'obliar l'onte, gli oltraggi, è bassezza, è ognor viltà."

"The sixth precept of the natural law is, that in revenge and punishments we must have our eye not at the evil past, but the future good: that is, it is not lawful to inflict punishment for any other end, but that the offender may be corrected, or that others warned by his punishment may become better. But this is confirmed chiefly from hence, that each man is bound by the law of nature to forgive one another, provided he give caution for the future, as hath been showed in the foregoing article. Furthermore, because revenge, if the time past be only considered, is nothing else but a certain triumph and glory of mind, which points at no end (for it contemplates only what is past, but the end is a thing to come), but that which is directed to no end, is vain: that revenge therefore which regards not the future, proceeds from vain glory, and therefore without reason. But to hurt another without reason introduces a war, and is contrary to the fundamental law of nature. It is therefore a precept of the law of nature, that in revenge we look not backwards, but forward. Now the breach of this law is commonly called CRUELTY."

"To forgive is divine But vengeance is mine, mine, mine"

"“They say revenge is empty.” “This is my first try at it,” Holden said. “Forgive me if my opinions on it are fairly unformed.”"

"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth! Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless."

"You know what they say about revenge? You better be ready to dig two graves."

"Doubtless, revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim, or else we are tangled in the subtleties of remorse; so vengeance too has its venom, though it comes closer to what we are, to what we feel, to the very law of the self; it is also healthier than magnanimity. The Furies were held to antedate the gods, Zeus included. Vengeance before Divinity! This is the Major intuition of ancient mythology."

"If you wish for revenge, an equally hard blow will be dealt back to yourself."

"Revenge is like a ghost. It takes over every man it touches. Its thirst cannot be quenched until the last man standing has fallen."

"Women do most delight in revenge."

"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you."

"I never take vengeance unless I am forced to do so by an oath or in self-protection. I believe that evil is its own punishment."

"Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong."

"Sweet is revenge — especially to women."

"Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon."

"Four years ago my partner - my friend - was killed and I took about as much revenge as any man can take. It cost me everything I had: what was left of my family, everything. Somehow I thought it would ease the pain but it doesn't. And somewhere in your heart you really have to accept that... and then you can begin to forgive yourself."

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"Ich bin gewohnt in der Münze wiederzuzahlen in der man mich bezahlt."

"Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?"

"Revenge is the prime ingredient in the fountain of youth."

"And would'st thou evil for his good repay?"

"It is a right of nature to glut the soul with vengeance."

"Some great writers produce a profound effect by their work as a whole, but are not readily quotable; others have the gift of condensing their meaning into a striking phrase. The conscious and deliberate literary artist will generally be found to belong to the latter class. Pope, for example, is the most quotable writer in English after Shakespeare. Stevenson stands intermediate. On the whole, he rather diffuses his meaning, and makes it an atmosphere enfolding everything; but at times his skill in words concentrates itself in a sentence or phrase, or even in a word."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff."