Vengeance Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old vengeance quotes, vengeance sayings, and vengeance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It's harder to defeat / Than it is to spell, / Revenge is not sweet / It's bitter as Hell. Duke Ellington
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left by emptiness...A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it Louis L'Amour
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. Abigail Van Buren
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. Malcolm S. Forbes
Revenge is the poor delight of little minds. Juvenal
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge!... They have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies. Catherine Of Siena
Not becoming like your enemy is the best revenge. Marcus Aurelius
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. Friedrich von Schiller
To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself. Bakongo Saying
Revenge holds the cup to the lips of another but drinks the dregs itself. Josh Billings
Some people would rather get even instead of getting ahead. Les Brown
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. Lou Holtz
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge and dares forgive an injury. E.H. Chapin
Today still be yours / Tomorrow might be still yours / Vengeance is not mine. Ging Alburo D.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Billings
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior...A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Francis Bacon
Revenge, at first, though sweet, hitter, ere long, back on itself recoils. Milton
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us. Jane Porter
Revenge has ears more deaf than adders, to the voice of any true decision. Shakespeare
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Bacon
Revenge is an act of passion: vengeance of justice.— Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. Joubert
Revenge is like a boomerang. Although for a time it flies in the direction in, which it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and, returning hits your own the heaviest blow of all. J.M. Mason