Comeuppance Quotes

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Revenge does not long remain unrevenged.

Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and then gets wiped out every time.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, there's a certain element of an eye for an eye. There's the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.' When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.

Revenge proves its own executioner.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

The toe you step on today may be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow.

I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

The highs and lows of Vitor Belfort, I would not want to be that guy. Be on top of the world getting all these 'knockouts of the night' and all these awards of the year and then all of a sudden get shunned into the shadows. He leads a shady life, and it seems like karma might be coming back.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.