Quotes About Revenge

Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

I am the one whom you sold, betrayed and dishonoured. I am the one whose fiancée you prostituted. I am the one on whom you trampled in order to attain a fortune. I am the one whose father you condemned to starvation, and the one who condemned you to starvation, but who none the less forgives you, because he himself needs forgiveness. I am Edmond Dantès!

Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side of the mountain and into the abyss of doubt.

La haine est aveugle, la colère étourdie, et celui qui se verse la vengeance risque de boire un breuvage amer.

he cursed his fellow-man who had snatched him from his joyous life to plunge him into a dungeon; he cursed his God who had let this happen; he cried aloud to whatever powers might be that could grant him revenge and liberty.

Insensato! - exclamou para consigo - No dia em que resolvera vingar-me deixei que me arrancassem o coração!

Monte Cristo pressed on that pure beautiful forehead a kiss which made two hearts throb at once, the one violently, the other secretly.

Alexandre Dumas

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Alexandre Dumas

the marquise had often said that there are means to get rid of people one dislikes, and they can easily be put an end to in a bowl of soup.

23. La isla de Montecristo

L'odio è cieco, la collera stordisce, e colui che si versa la vendetta rischia di bere un'amara pozione.

ma io, tradito, assassinato, gettato a mia volta in una tomba, ne sono uscito per grazia di Dio, e devo a Dio la mia vendetta: per questo mi manda, e sono qui.

He condemned these unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, but found them all insufficient, because after the torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least that insensibility that resembles it.

j'ai encore plus peur de la malédiction des morts que de la haine des vivants.

Alexandre Dumas

He consigned his unknown persecutors to the most horrible tortures he could imagine, and found them all insufficient, because after torture came death, and after death, if not repose, at least the boon of unconsciousness.

Alexandre Dumas

Fui un insensato -dijo-, en no haberme arrancado el corazón el día que jure vengarme.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas