#revenge

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. ↗

— John McCarthy

#been #closely #desire #history #human

The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#i #influenced #make #me #most

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#complaint #contains #every #impossible #making

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

— Samuel Johnson

#crimes #injuries #justice #passion #revenge

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

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#delight #despair #dreadful #end #feeds

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours. ↗

— Tony Scott

#like #movies #revenge #two #under

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#idol #naked #revenge #worship

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

— Confucius

#constraints #inspire #often #people #revenge