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Film · Crime (film) · Crime

You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me?

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather · 1972

★ 1.3

Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.

Satires · 127

★ 1.3

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

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · 1625

★ 1.9

Film · Martial arts (film) · Action (film) · Martial arts · Action

Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest and like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost...to forget where you came in.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 · 2003

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet · 1887

★ 2.0

Sweet is revenge—especially to women.

Don Juan · 1819

★ 2.2

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 2.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

We have an old saying in Delta: don't get mad, get even.

Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day

Animal House · 1978

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

You know, it's very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 3.7

Film · Martial arts (film) · Action (film) · Martial arts · Action

When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other that not only does God exist, you’re doing his will.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 · 2003

★ 3.7

Play · History (play)

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 3.9

Film · Western (film) · Western

Make no mistake—It's not revenge he's after. It's a reckonin'.

Tombstone · 1993

★ 4.6

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee With great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers And you will know my name is the Lord When I lay my vengeance upon thee.

Jules Winnfield

Pulp Fiction · 1994

★ 4.6

Philosophical dialogue · Philosophical literature

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Plato, Crito · 399 BC

★ 4.9

Living well is the best revenge.

Jacula Prudentum · 1633

★ 6.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 7.1