Jo Nesbo Quotes

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Sweet as sugar, hard as ice. Hurt me once, I'll kill you twice.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

A woman always has her revenge ready.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

A little bloodthirsty, isn’t it? (Kim) Given what they did to Tory, I’m thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron) Well, let’s just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam)