Top 41 The Avenging Quotes
#1. She knew it was consonant with his character to be the avenging angel.
Sylvain Reynard
#2. And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude ... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!
Alexandre Dumas
#3. Mitchell rose to the task of playing the avenging angel for the Confederate States. There have been hundreds of novels about the Civil War, but Gone With the Wind stands like an obelisk in the
Margaret Mitchell
#4. In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature ... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.
Charles Baudelaire
#5. Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
#6. His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
Gregory Maguire
#7. A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones
Munia Khan
#8. The baroness swept into the room like an avenging black angel, her cape streaming out behind her. If looks could kill, we'd have been sprawled on the carpet.
Rhys Bowen
#10. No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.
John Doolittle
#11. How very sweet. My dear," he said, speaking to Alex, "I imagine he's willing to give up the information because he fancies himself in love with you. Don't you see? Your life simply isn't worth the pleasure of avenging his father's death. It's touching, really." Alex
Sarah MacLean
#12. What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?
Terrence Malick
#13. In wondered in avenging was being used as an adjective or a verb.
David Levithan
#14. It's time to serve my Master. He says, pointing at some steamy thing in the distance. If his master is some type of steam, all I gotta do is get a vacuum and sweep his ass up.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#15. I didn't actually think you were hanging out at Hex Hall because of your burning love for me. But that's what I'm telling all the girls back at school," I said, stabbing a forkful of eggs. "I'm thinking 'heartbreaker' might be a nice addition to my 'avenging witch' reputation.
Rachel Hawkins
#16. Write or don't write. There is only try.
Kim Smith
#17. Someone else should be avenging her. Somebody who wasn't so stupid.
Rosamund Hodge
#18. Arthur stood alone in the centre of the ring of kings. In the flickering light of the Christ Mass candles, holding the sword easily by the hilt, alert, resolute, unafraid, he appeared an avenging angels, eyes alight with the bright fire of righteousness.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#19. Her hair was wild, her eyes were flashing, and her tattered underskirts floated around her. She looked like a glorious avenging goddess from some ancient erotic myth.
Gail Carriger
#20. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#21. You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar of combat. "Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."
"Funny," I said, shifting my hold on the stake. "That is kind of why I'm here."
"Angels fall, Rose.
Richelle Mead
#22. The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
Jane Porter
#23. We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
T.H. White
#24. In life, you don't have miracles, you don't have anything but whatever you can hold on to.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#25. Standing there in that glittering dress and wielding flame like some sort of avenging goddess.
Richelle Mead
#26. Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
Lucretius
#27. Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
Hillary Clinton
#28. The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
Marcus Aurelius
#29. then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent?
Emily St. John Mandel
#30. She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.
Cassandra Clare
#31. You came to Dublin, avenging angel, and what's the first thing you did? Fucked the devil. Oops, shit, eh?
Karen Marie Moning
#33. Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.
Emile Zola
#34. Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.
Jason Jack Miller
#35. Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#36. In the flickering lantern light, she looked like an avenging angel standing there. Her hair was a tangled mess and her face was swollen to hell, but her hand was rock steady on that weapon, even with the pain she had to be in. The deadly intent was clear on her face.
Kaylea Cross
#37. If I spoke all I think on this point, if I gave my real opinion of some first-rate female characters in first-rate works, where should I be? Dead under a cairn of avenging stones in half an hour.
Charlotte Bronte
#38. Yeah, I went to school three hundred and a half years ago y'know.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#39. Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,
dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#40. Asleep, he looks like a bleeding Prince Charming chained in the dungeon. When I was little, I always thought I'd be Cinderella, but I guess this makes me the wicked witch.
But then again, Cinderella didn't live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.
Susan Ee
#41. A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
