Vengeance Quotes

• 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

  Two, Decision, Demand

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Passion, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Heart, Blood

  1592 Aaron toTamora.Titus Andronicus, act 2, sc.3, l.38-9.

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• There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Satisfaction, Realizing, Retribution

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Movie, Brother, Anger

  "Pulp Fiction". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
  By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
  Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
  Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
  For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
  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 vengeance upon thee.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Children, Selfish

  "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

  Sulla

  Thankful, Revenge, Enemy

  Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.

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• Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Daughter, Silence, If The Shoe Fits

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 707), 1922.

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• Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

  Michelle Shocked

  Pain, Revenge, Two

  Song: Quality Of Mercy

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• 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

  Gratitude, Kindness, Farewell

  "The Count of Monte Cristo". Book by Alexandre Dumas, 1845-1846.

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• Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

  Winston Churchill

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Revenge'

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• Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.

  Hiawatha

  Love, Peace, Revenge

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• 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

  War, Men, Political

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• Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Life, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Change For The Better

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

  Josh Billings

  Forgiveness, Revenge, No Revenge

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• Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Blow, Delay

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• Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Sweet, Taken, Stills

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

  Alexander Pope

  Waiting

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.215

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• If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Evil, Deeds, Death Penalty

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Heart, Tears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

  Walter Scott

  Revenge, Thinking, Flames

  Sir Walter Scott (1857). “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field”, p.269

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