Top 70 Revenge Vengeance Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.
("The Vengeance Of The Dead")
Robert Barr
#5. 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
#6. Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.
Michelle Madow
#7. The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.
Nenia Campbell
#8. Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct
Simone De Beauvoir
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson
#12. 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
#13. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
Charles Dickens
#14. 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
#15. Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
David Gemmell
#17. For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
James A. Garfield
#18. Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. It's not because we can't take vengeance that we should feel sorry. The real reason to feel sorry... is when one is hung up on revenge and can't live their own life.
Sui Ishida
#20. People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#21. That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#22. To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.
Criss Jami
#24. I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
Maeve Binchy
#25. Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming.
Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance.
- Lash
J.R. Ward
#27. A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. Some sought revenge against their mortal enemies with the edge of a sword. Her plan for vengeance began with the edge of a smile.
Morgan Rhodes
#30. Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
Maximilien Robespierre
#31. And you, you better run because i'm going to destroy you for what you've taken from me.
Samantha Young
#32. Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
William Shakespeare
#34. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
Charlotte Bronte
#35. A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
Craig R. Key
#37. I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants' sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
- The Egyptian God Bes
Jonathan Maas
#38. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
Criss Jami
#39. No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#41. They say vengeance taken will tear the heart and torment the conscious. If there's any truth to it, then I now know with certainty that the path I'm on is the right one.
Emily Thorne
#42. How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. I wanted it more than enough. I wanted it with every fiber of my being, and I had the power to make it happen - to make it so I was the one Drew wanted, not Lizzie
Michelle Madow
#44. Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that."
The boy's voice was grave. "I'll remember.
Jennifer McKeithen
#45. Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
Emile Gaboriau
#46. You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.
Glendon Swarthout
#47. The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was taken, you should take it from them.
Deyth Banger
#48. Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Walter Scott
#49. True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
Richard Rohr
#50. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
Joyce Rachelle
#51. Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words.
Erin Bowman
#52. The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
Rae Foley
#53. For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.
Dennis R. Miller
#54. For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#55. Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head
William Shakespeare
#56. Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Homer
#57. Love is self-serving - we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be willing to enact another persons vengeance?
Kathleen Tessaro
#61. I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.
Aesop
#62. We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
Barbara Kingsolver
#64. If you don't take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness
Sunday Adelaja
#65. But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.
Amy Engel
#66. Revenge is solely about passion. Rage. Fury. Vengeance, on the other hand, is about retribution for a crime done against oneself.
Pete Kahle
#67. The fruit of worldly love is indeed revenge (vengeance).
Dada Bhagwan
#69. Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers - vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#70. There is no elegance in hate, but there is tremendous beauty in the unintended revenge of living well and being happy.
Victoria Malin Gregory
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