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Revenge: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

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

Sweet is revenge-especially to women.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 124.

Revenge is profitable.— GIBBON — Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. XI.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 367.

Pope's trans. Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. IX. L. 171.

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 105.

At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti. Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. XIII. 180.

Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu. I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.— MOLIÈRE — Le Medicin Malgré Lui.