Tit For Tat Quotes

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

Here's a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees - far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That's what we do. That's just the way it is.

You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

We befriend whoever befriends us, and we are hostile to those hostile to us.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.