Top 100 Quotes About Vengeance
#2. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession he would ask him. A priest should understand. That was his job, wasn't it? To understand and forgive? Maybe understanding would come with death.
Julie Garwood
#3. Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#4. But I would have vengeance to fall on the head, not on the hand; on the tyrannical and oppressive government which designed and directed these premeditated and reiterated insults, not on the tools of office which they employed in the execution of the injuries they designed you.
Walter Scott
#5. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward.
Virginia C. Andrews
#6. When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Criss Jami
#7. Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self
Rosemarie Yusen
#8. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#9. Her soul was as cold as the air that bit through London in winter, her grief a shadow to the vengeance ...
Michelle Zink
#10. Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
Lord Byron
#11. The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
Sue Grafton
#12. It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Robert Barr
#13. In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love
Euripides
#14. Over the obsidian hills and the sunken yellow dale, through the vast oceans of fog and the fires of nevermore, sits the fickle doors of the land of twilight. I will traverse it all, and execute righteous judgment on all that oppose me.
H.S. Crow
#15. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
Takina Cupp
#16. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
Janet Morris
#17. The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
R.L. LaFevers
#18. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Alexandre Dumas
#19. I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.
Ilona Andrews
#21. If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.
Robin Hobb
#22. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
James Augustus St. John
#23. He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?"
I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.
R.L. LaFevers
#24. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
Jennifer Birkett
#25. I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
Rodney King
#27. Is his work vengeance? Or Justice? There is the finest line between the two and when i try to focus on it, it becomes less and less clear.
Jodi Picoult
#28. I will never stop being pissed. He has now created a 'lifetime of seeking vengeance' scenario.
Jeff Strand
#30. All our ladies were besotted with the new visitor. They divided sharply into two camps: one adored him, while the other hated him with a vengeance; but both were besotted nonetheless.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
Beth Ditto
#32. There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
Jack McDevitt
#33. Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.
Michelle Madow
#34. Abandon the guilt," Prof said. "Abandon the denial. Steelheart did this to her. He's our goal. That has to be your focus. We don't have time for grief; we only have time for vengeance.
Brandon Sanderson
#35. To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin
Robert Harris
#36. People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.
Erin Bowman
#37. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. - Rom. 12:19
Michael Punke
#38. Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
Seneca The Younger
#39. The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.
Nenia Campbell
#40. When you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,
Bob Marshall
#41. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Simone De Beauvoir
#42. He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.
Ron Suskind
#43. And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#44. Some primitive societies avoid striking out at the true guilty party because it might awaken the spirit of vengeance. Channeling violence toward a sacrificial victim as if toward a lightning rod doubtless stops violence, but it's not very pretty.
Rene Girard
#46. If he was right, here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a devilish Indian Diamond - bringing after it a conspiracy of living rogues, set loose on us by the vengeance of a dead man.
Wilkie Collins
#47. What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you.
Jackson Lanzing
#48. Vengeance for the murdered supposed the dead enjoyed sufficient afterlife to appreciate their efforts. The dead enjoyed nothing of the kind. The dead didn't go anywhere, except, if you were the monster who'd taken their lives and devoured them, into you.
Glen Duncan
#49. You can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started on some vengeance. It's like a dang vocation with them
Alden Bell
#50. Eyes watching always
Shadows in shadows they wait
A black feather falls
First accepted, loved
Then betrayed-spit in the face
Vengeance sweet like dots.
Kristin Cast
#51. War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.
Guy Sajer
#52. One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.
Pippa DaCosta
#53. Take the god's gift. Become the Fury.
It was time to become the monster Merik had been all along. No more numbed distance. No more fighting the Nihar temper. Only vicious, hungry heat.
One for the sake of many; vengeance for those he'd lost.
Susan Dennard
#54. All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.
Mahmoud Abbas
#55. You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned." Miss
L.M. Montgomery
#56. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#57. As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.
Dada Bhagwan
#58. They will know a vengeance that their grandchildren will understand and knowing it through the ages to come they will still quake in their beds! Okay, he wasn't calming down, like ... at all.
Kristen Ashley
#59. Blood thirsty has nothing to do with guns and swords, it has all to do with vindictive inclinations
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#60. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.
Tzvetan Todorov
#62. What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#63. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
#64. Turn your cheek' only works with physical slaps, only works pre-Second coming. Against guns, bombs, and the most inhumane practices ever conceived, we must protect ourselves. We must become the agents of God's vengeance.
Peter Tieryas
#65. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.
Marie Rutkoski
#66. Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.
Amos Elon
#67. I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
Toussaint Louverture
#68. AGAMEMNON: I will not slay my children, nor shall thy interests be prospered by justice in thy vengeance for a worthless wife, while I am left wasting, night and day, in sorrow for what I did to one of my own flesh and blood, contrary to all law and justice.
Euripides
#69. Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.
Mariah Fredericks
#70. Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
Charles Simmons
#71. I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#72. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Charles Dickens
#73. One comes back [reborn] as a son because of harmony with us [from the past life] and one comes back as a son also because of enmity [vengeance from the past life], [but] needlessly arises the illusion [wrong belief] that 'they are mine...they are mine'.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
#75. Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
Alexandre Dumas
#76. We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later it's like nothing ever happened
James S.A. Corey
#77. To punish someone for your own mistakes or for the consequences of your own actions, to harm another by shifting blame that is rightly yours; this is a wretched and cowardly sin.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. And what,' he asked the dragons, 'so spurred their zeal?'
'Vengeance, of course. And Anomandaris.
Steven Erikson
#79. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.
Gwynn White
#80. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.
Preston Sprinkle
#81. Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#83. Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?
You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point.
Claudia Gray
#84. I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.
Zacky Vengeance
#85. While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
Elliott Abrams
#86. Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
David Gemmell
#87. Anger fuels Hate
Hate fuels Rage
Rage fuels Vengeance
Vengeance fuels Despair
Despair fuels Hate.
Alyssa Louttit
#88. I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
Neil Young
#89. He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.
Ellen Kushner
#90. In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Robert Gould Shaw
#91. You think I'm defeated. You think you've passed your judgement and that's the end of it. Oh, you think it's as simple as that. Well you are wrong. I shall never have vengeance for this moment, but you will see me again. You will see me again.
Anne Rice
#92. The problem is that no matter how good your intentions, eventually you want to kill someone yourself.
Kenneth Cain
#93. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
Mitch Albom
#94. Happiness, wealth, true love. Just like everybody else."
"That's all?"
"What else is there that matters?"
He shrugged a shoulder. "Destruction, vengeance, power, world domination."
Her smile stretched but it didn't reach her eyes. "Those are fun too.
Michelle Rowen
#95. I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.
Maya Banks
#96. It's so sad that everything is put here in this film Bound to Vengeance.
Deyth Banger
#97. Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another.
Ken Scholes
#99. If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
John Maynard Keynes
#100. Hopefully, he realized that running into a town, guns blazing, where there were a thousand people, many of them armed, would be a very short mission of vengeance.
Steve McHugh
