Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with read more

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to read more

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

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
[Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je read more

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
[Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to
re-rat.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to
re-rat.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
[Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique read more

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
[Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]