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Monday, June 10th, 2024
the Week of Proper 5 / Ordinary 10
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Quotations regarding 'Revenge'

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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
Gavrilo Princip, Revolutionary (1894-1918)
I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.
David Prowse, British Actor (1935-  )
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade, French Novelist (1740-1814)
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands, Irish Activist (1954-1981)
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana, American Philosopher (1863-1952)
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist (1759-1805)
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, -
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, American Historian (1888-1965)
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.
Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian (1875-1965)
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
Tony Scott, British Director (1944-  )
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet (1792-1822)
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra, American Musician (1915-1998)
Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.
Joe Slovo, South African Politician (1926-1995)
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag, American Author (1933-2004)
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.
Sylvester Stallone, American Actor (1946-  )
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist (1936-  )
The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
Hailee Steinfeld, American Actress (1996-  )
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
Cat Stevens, British Musician (1948-  )
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
Ivana Trump, Czechoslovakian Celebrity (1949-  )
 
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