revenge (n.)
- amends
- atonement
- balancing
- comeuppance
- commutation
- compensation
- counteraction
- counterblow
- desert
- deserts
- expiation
- get
- indemnification
- indemnity
- punishment
- quittance
- recompense
- rectification
- redress
- reparation
- repayment
- reprisal
- requital
- restitution
- retaliation
- retribution
- reward
- satisfaction
- spitefulness
- substitution
- vengeance
- vindictiveness
revenge (v.)
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up.
Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcaeus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."
Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
Had stomach for them all.
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
Sweet is revenge—especially to women.
By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear.
