Shakespeare on Revenge

The croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
Hamlet (3.2.250)

How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge!
Hamlet (4.4.35-6)

O, from this time forth,
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
Hamlet (4.4.65-6)

Revenge should have no bounds.
Hamlet (4.7.143)

When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools: this a good block;
It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe
A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;
And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,
Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!
King Lear (4.6.200-5)

I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall--I will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth.
King Lear (2.4.305-9)

As for the brat of this accursed duke,
Whose father slew my father, he shall die.
3 Henry VI (1.3.5-6)

BASTARD OF ORLEANS See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;
The burning torch in yonder turret stands.
CHARLES Now shine it like a comet of revenge,
A prophet to the fall of all our foes!
1 Henry VI (3.2.30-3)

By most mechanical and dirty hand:
Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell
Alecto's snake,
For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.
2 Henry IV (5.5.38-41)

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
2 Henry VI (4.4.1-3)

Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine
Were not revenge sufficient for me;
No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves
And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,
It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
The sight of any of the house of York
Is as a fury to torment my soul;
And till I root out their accursed line
And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
3 Henry VI (1.3.28-36)

My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth
A bird that will revenge upon you all:
And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,
Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.
3 Henry VI (1.4.35-8)

I'll never pause again, never stand still,
Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine
Or fortune given me measure of revenge.
3 Henry VI (2.3.31-3)