#revenge

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#clerk #faculty #favourite #frustration #get

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

— Sacha Guitry

#better #her #him #keep #man

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#graves #revenge #seeking #two #while

You have to be okay with wins and losses. You can't just be looking for the wins and, when the losses happen, you can't buy more and more because you're sure it's going to bounce. We call that revenge trading. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#bounce #buy #call #going #happen

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#concealed #forgiveness #hardens #hurries #into

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. ↗

— Julian Clary

#get #motivation #pathetic #really #revenge

I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, because it makes so much sense to me. ↗

— Terri F. Williams

#family-issues #fiction #trust-and-revenge #family

France does not practice revenge. ↗

— Francois Fillon

#france #practice #revenge

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#dreams #life #revenge

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#cannot #destroyed #either #generously #heavy