VENGEANCE QUOTES II
quotations about vengeance
Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN
Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongs
My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Marmion
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
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
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"
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
GARY D. SCHMIDT
The Wednesday Wars
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
Man tames not vengeance; vengeance breaks the man.
CHRIS GALFORD
The Hollow March
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
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
What house
would ask for Vengeance
to perch heavy,
defiling the rafters like some bird of ill omen?
AESCHYLUS
The Suppliants
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
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Titus Andronicus
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Cat's Eye
Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace.
ANNE ELISABETH STENGL
Goddess Tithe
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.
EDWARD YOUNG
Busiris, King of Egypt: A Tragedy
Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits.
HOMER
The Odyssey
For vengeance is an emptiness and he that seeketh it wasteth himself.
JEFFERY FARNOL
Martin Conisby's Vengeance