Vengeance Quotes

295 Vengeance quotes by 229 unique authors

On wrongs swift vengeance waits. — Alexander Pope
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt
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… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. — Benjamin Spock
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will… — Tacitus
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. — Henry David Thoreau
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. — William Shakespeare
When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the… — Austin Grossman
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
Vengeance is a lazy form of grief. — Nicole Kidman
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. — Gary D. Schmidt
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… — Charlotte Bronte
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do… — Mitch Albom
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I… — Peter Kropotkin
While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be… — Diana Gabaldon
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from… — Marjane Satrapi
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me! — Terry Goodkind
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of… — Jan Karon
She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of… — Zadie Smith
Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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