Vengeance Quotes - Page 13

• I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Oysters, Envy

  Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing

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• Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Doe, Starvation

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• 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. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Hate, Passion, Sunset

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Dog, Ambition, Self

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• They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design a grabber arm long enough to snatch Percy and Annabeth out of Tartarus, then that's what he would do. Nemesis wanted him to wreak vengeance on Gaea? Leo would be happy to oblige. He was going to make Gaea sorry she had ever messed with Leo Valdez. "Yeah." He took one last look at the cityscape of Rome, turning bloodred in the sunset. "Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Sunset, Doors

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• You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

  James Cameron

  Moving, Sleep, Long

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• We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings.

  David Kaczynski

  Equality, Justice, Hatred

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• The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.

  John T. Flynn

  Christian, Strong, War

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• 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

  Love, Life, Family

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• 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

  Memories, Powerful, Yankees

  Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1871). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.355

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• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Wave, Institutions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

  Janet Morris

  Time, War, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

  Henry Miller

  Freedom, Law, Differences

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• Something seems wrong to most people engaged in struggle when they see more people hurt on their own side than on the other side. They are used to reading this as an indication of defeat, and a complete mental readjustment is required of them. Within the new terms of struggle, victory has nothing to do with their being able to give more punishment than they take (quite the reverse); victory has nothing to do with their being able to punish the other at all; it has to do simply with being able, finally, to make the other move... Vengeance is not the point; change is.

  Barbara Deming

  Hurt, Struggle, Moving

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• The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Taken, Judging, Vagabonds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Wrestling, Common Sense

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• ...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

  Gregory Maguire

  Lying, Healthy, Sin

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• Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

  Nicole Kidman

  Grief, Lazy, Form

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• When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men.

  Geronimo

  Mother, Stars, Children

  Geronimo, S. M. Barrett (2016). “Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

  Solomon Northup

  Fear, Prayer, Ignorant

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The path to love is our spiritual destiny.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Spiritual, Destiny

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• Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

  George R. R. Martin

  Brother, Kings, Husband

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• A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Guilt, Share

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.17

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• Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.

  John Adams

  Wise, People, Republic

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.422

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• I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Guy, Likes, Next

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