VENGEANCE QUOTES II

quotations about vengeance

Vengeance quote

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

SIR WALTER SCOTT

Marmion

Tags: Sir Walter Scott


The Lord's Prayer suggests that we forgive our trespassers, but in today's society vengeance is at the forefront.

DEREK MARKS

"Protesters made their point and should let it go", Windsor Star, April 23, 2017


Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN

Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest


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

The Tarishe Curse


Man tames not vengeance; vengeance breaks the man.

CHRIS GALFORD

The Hollow March


Underlying vengeance is a very strong moral character, guided by a simple principle of justice, which stipulates that symmetry must be restored to what is perceived as an unbalanced situation.

ROBERT R. FRIEDMANN

Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel


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

GARY D. SCHMIDT

The Wednesday Wars


And though the villain 'scape a while, he feels
Slow vengeance, like a bloodhound, at his heels.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"Horace, Book III Ode II: To the Earl of Oxford, Late Lord-Treasurer"

Tags: Jonathan Swift


One sole desire, one passion now remains
To keep life's fever still within his veins,
Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast
O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.

THOMAS MOORE

Lalla Rookh

Tags: Thomas Moore


Everyone knows that there is more bravery in beating an enemy than in finishing him off: more contempt in making him bow his head than in making him die; that, moreover, the thirst for vengeance is better slaked and satisfied by doing so, since the only intention is to make it felt ... Killing is good for preventing a future offense, but not for avenging one already done. It is a deed more of fear than of bravery.

PETER MACK

Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare


Vengeance is a form of reciprocity in which each deed begets another. Each act of vengeance is a response to a previous wrong.

JAMES T. SIEGEL

Fetish, Recognition, Revolution


Deep Vengeance is the daughter of deep Silence.

LORD BYRON

Marino Faliero

Tags: Lord Byron


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Titus Andronicus

Tags: William Shakespeare


What house
would ask for Vengeance
to perch heavy,
defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?

AESCHYLUS

The Suppliants

Tags: Aeschylus


A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

EDWARD YOUNG

Busiris, King of Egypt: A Tragedy

Tags: Edward Young


Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

Tags: Thomas Aquinas


Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits.

HOMER

The Odyssey

Tags: Homer


Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.

ANNE ELISABETH STENGL

Goddess Tithe


An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

MARGARET ATWOOD

Cat's Eye

Tags: Margaret Atwood


For vengeance is an emptiness and he that seeketh it wasteth himself.

JEFFERY FARNOL

Martin Conisby's Vengeance