"The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy."

--- Albert Camus

"I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization."

--- Alicia Sixtos

"The best revenge is democracy."

--- Benazir Bhutto

"God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards."

--- Walt Whitman

"Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it."

--- Voltaire

"I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on."

--- Boy George

"One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you."

--- Vernon Howard

"I feel that success is the best revenge in this world."

--- Chamillionaire

"The best revenge in the world is success."

--- Suge Knight

"A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions."

--- Cyril Connolly

"Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve."

--- Ed Sheeran

"Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature. the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace."

--- Epictetus

"A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all."

--- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated."

--- George Bernard Shaw

"the only revenge worth having is success."

--- Gertrude Atherton

"The best revenge is to live well."

--- Oscar Wilde

"An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays."

--- Nora Roberts

"A woman always has her revenge ready."

--- Moliere

"It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul."

--- Heraclitus

"Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke."

--- Mindy Kaling

"[Donald Trump] is already in revenge mode."

--- Michelle Goldberg

"It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically."

--- Izzeldin Abuelaish

"It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us."

--- Jake Delhomme

"They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better."

--- James Franco

"you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life."

--- Jane Smiley

"The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care."

--- Jennifer James

"The best revenge is living well."

--- Jerry Seinfeld

"The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary."

--- Leon Trotsky

"To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school."

--- John William Fletcher

"Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst."

--- Jonas Jonasson