Quotes about Revenge

[after Hindley hits him with a rock]
Heathcliff, as a child: How can I pay him back? I don't care how ling I wait - if I can only pay him back.

- Rex Downing (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

[the mercenary troops are marching through Paris]
Jacques 116: How many thousands of these foreign soldiers are they bringing in?
Madame De Farge: It doesn't matter how many; it will do them no good.
The Vengeance: It will do them no good. Ha!
Madame De Farge: The starving people of Paris might wait a long time before rising up to fight French soldiers; but against hired, foreign troops... any day... any hour...
The Vengeance: Any minute!

- Lucille La Verne (as The Vengeance) in A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

[after being badly beaten by Johnny Friendly and his goons]
Terry: Get me on my feet.
[Father Barry and Edie help Terry stand up]
Father Barry: How're you doing?
Terry: Am I on my feet?

- Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy) in On the Waterfront (1954)