Vengeance quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. -- Barbara Deming
  • Vengeance has no foresight. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Vengeance is without foresight. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • On wrongs swift vengeance waits. -- Alexander Pope
  • Vengeance is mine; I will repay. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. -- Vittorio Alfieri
  • Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. -- Samuel Johnson
  • If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • 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
  • Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Good Christians should never avenge injuries. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • One good act of vengeance deserves another. -- John Jefferson
  • Just vengeance does not call for punishment. -- Pierre Corneille
  • In high vengeance there is noble scorn. -- George Eliot
  • There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -- Josh Billings
  • To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. -- Criss Jami
  • The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. -- William Shakespeare
  • Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. -- Winston Churchill
  • No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover. -- Honore de Balzac
  • Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. -- Faith Popcorn
  • I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.' -- Bong Joon-ho
  • Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. -- Jane Goldman
  • 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
  • And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee! -- Quentin Tarantino
  • Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent -- Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  • Vengeance has no foresight -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Vengeance is disappointing, always. -- Janet Morris
  • Vengeance is a human right. -- Gaspar Noe
  • Vengeance is a lazy form of grief. -- Nicole Kidman
  • Vengeance is not the point: change is. -- Barbara Deming
  • Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels. -- Stefan Molyneux
  • Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief. -- Nicole Kidman
  • Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. -- Victor Hugo
  • Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain. -- Michelle Shocked
  • Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. -- Charles Dickens
  • Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • Justice is for the victim." Kick. "Vengeance is for the survivor. -- Rachel Vincent
  • Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary's Grandfather/Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in. -- Janet Reno
  • The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS. -- Carl Jung
  • Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS. -- Carl Jung
  • I am awake. I know what you took. I am coming for you. Vengeance is mine. -- Robin Burks
  • Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. -- William Shakespeare
  • But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow. -- Aeschylus
  • Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. -- Gary D. Schmidt
  • Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We're in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! -- Walter Scott
  • I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine. -- Bong Joon-ho
  • But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that? -- Gayle Forman
  • How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' -- Julian Huxley
  • An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'. -- J. Milton Hayes
  • Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice. -- Max Lucado
  • Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. -- Euripides
  • Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets. -- Joan Jett
  • 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. -- P. C. Cast
  • But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. -- Victor Hugo
  • The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead. -- William Blake
  • Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you. -- Michelle Paver
  • For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance -- Sue Grafton
  • 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
  • I've always been a prog rock fanatic, even before Vengeance. However I think I started to love the genre with Pink Floyd, yeah. I love them from the very beginning, also the Syd Barrett era. -- Arjen Anthony Lucassen
  • Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature! -- H. Beam Piper
  • 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
  • Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • She narrowed her eyes. "What is our heart's desire?" "Vengeance." His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. "Justice." Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, "Fire and blood. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance. -- Denise Morrison
  • When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. -- Chuck Jones
  • The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. -- Steve Perry
  • I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally. -- Segolene Royal
  • I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. -- Eva Gabrielsson
  • 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
  • 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
  • It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you. -- Cheech Marin
  • A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. -- Emma Orczy
  • Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope. -- Elaine Pagels
  • I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. -- Nicolas Cage
  • --
  • In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary. -- Louis Sullivan
  • Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. -- Henry George Bohn
  • Never get vengeance and justice mixed up. -- Robert Spencer
  • Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow. -- John Ford
  • A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt. -- Edward Young
  • Victory is the supreme vengeance in life -- Scottie Somer
  • Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow -- John Ford
  • I don't think vengeance is much good. -- Charlie Munger
  • Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold. -- Elsa Triolet
  • And personally, I've lost my thirst for vengeance. -- Janet Morris
  • Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance". -- Helen Prejean
  • La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • The source of justice is not vengeance but charity. -- Bridget of Sweden
  • Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. -- Martin Mull
  • But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. -- Terry Goodkind
  • The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance. -- Tim LaHaye
  • System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance. -- Steve Simmons
  • Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill. -- Lord Byron
  • The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance. -- Janet Morris
  • Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. -- Michael Moorcock
  • The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated -- Johann Georg Hamann
  • Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. -- Homer
  • If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance. -- R. Scott Bakker
  • The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. -- Rae Foley
  • Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. -- Charles Simmons
  • The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. -- Terry Pratchett
  • We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. -- Henry Rollins
  • It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance. -- Pope Francis
  • Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
  • This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. -- Seneca the Younger
  • creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it. -- Marjorie Benton Cooke
  • My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that. -- Stewart Francis
  • To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. -- Sidney Sheldon
  • It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance -- Neil Young
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share