Quotes About Revenge

Don’t go looking for a fight—but if you’re hit, deck the bastard.

— Roger Ailes

A woman’s desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

— Cyril Connolly

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

— Sacha Guitry

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

— Exodus 21:24

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

— Austin O’Malley

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

— Elbert Hubbard

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

— Cicero

One of the shameful chapters of this country was how many of the comfortable—especially those who profited from the misery of others—abused her. . . . But she got even in a way that was almost cruel.  She forgave them.

— Ralph McGill, about Eleanor Roosevelt

Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me.  I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt, in a letter to a competitor