Getting Even Quotes

“Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

“The only people who you should get even with are those who have helped you.”
― John Southard

“Destroying someone's life could be remarkably cathartic.”
― Kate McNeil, Thistles

“It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed by a failure to show self-respect. The wrongdoer may be harmed by being deprived of an important incentive - the desire to be forgiven - that could move him toward repentance and moral rebirth.”
― Jeffrie G. Murphy, Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits

“Revenge can only be found on the road to self-destruction.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“One bad turn does not excuse another.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Don’t get mad, get even and the best even to get is to ‘four’give, i.e. give more than four times and counting.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain suddenly vanished, his broken heart was healed. The score was even.”
― John Grisham, The Judge's List

“When someone chooses dishonor over dialogue, let them live with it.”
― Lucas Bean