Vengeance quotes
102 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world."
"Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come."
"Vengeance is without foresight."
"Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters."
"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."
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"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."
"Vengeance has no foresight."
"Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable."
"If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance."
"Without forgiveness, there is no future."
"In high vengeance there is noble scorn."
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay."
"In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it."
"One good act of vengeance deserves another."
"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."
"Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?"
"Good Christians should never avenge injuries."
"I don't think vengeance is much good."
"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance."
"Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God."
"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS."
"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
"I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance"
"I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions"
