Definition of Revenge

Revenge

To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing wronged, as the object, or by the reciprocal pronoun as direct object, and a preposition before the wrong done or the wrongdoer.

To inflict injury for, in a spiteful, wrong, or malignant spirit; to wreak vengeance for maliciously.

To take vengeance; -- with

The act of revenging; vengeance; retaliation; a returning of evil for evil.

The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury.

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Revenge Quotations

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope

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

The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Ambrose Bierce

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

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

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

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

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

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

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
Alfred Hitchcock

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

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams

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Revenge Translations

revenge in Dutch is wraak
revenge in French is vengeance
revenge in German is Rache {f}, Rache, Ahndung {f}
revenge in Italian is vendetta
revenge in Latin is ultio ultionis
revenge in Spanish is venganza

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