“Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
“…By Allah, we will take revenge! By Allah, we will take revenge! Even if it takes a while, we will take revenge, and every amount of harm against the Ummah will be responded to with multitudes more against the perpetrator…”
As quoted in Dabiq, issue #12; published November 18, 2015, pg. 2
2014, 2015
Source: http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-dabiq-magazine-issue-12-just-terror.pdf
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“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Revenge
Essays (1625)
Variant: Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293
“She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.”
Poul Anderson book The Boat of a Million Years
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 15 “Coming Together”, Section 2 (p. 281)
“To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster:
Either condemn or crown your hatred.”
Qui se venge à demi court lui-même à sa peine:
Il faut ou condamner ou couronner sa haine.
Cléopâtre, act V, scene i.
Rodogune (1644)
Jeffrey Tucker (1963) American writer
Source: ""Trophy Kids"" by Jeffrey Tucker, The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, October 1997, UNZ.org, 2016-05-22 http://www.unz.org/Pub/RothbardRockwellReport-1997oct-00008,
“Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
Scott Moir (1987) Canadian figure skater
Interview with Kristina Rutherford for Sportsnet.ca (January 2018)
“He who cuts off his nose takes poor revenge for a shame inflicted on him.”
Male ulciscitur dedecus sibi illatum, qui amputat nasum suum.
Peter of Blois French poet and diplomat
De Hierosolymitana peregrinatione acceleranda (1189), cited from Mary Beth Rose (ed.) Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986) p. 29; translation from John Simpson The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) p. 55.
A similar proverb, Qui son nez cope deshonore son vis, appears in the late 12th century chanson de geste Garin le Loheren, line 2877.