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Quotes About Retribution

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I am the avenging sword of taste and decency
~ John Kennedy Toole
For now, free at last from all threat of government reaction or retribution, the market sailed off into the wild blue yonder. Especially after June 1 all hesitation disappeared. Never before or since have so many become so wondrously, so effortlessly, and so quickly rich.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The first person who says anything unpleasant will get a swift kick in the ass.
~ John Knowles
Mark my words. Someday, somehow, he WILL be back. And upon his return, shake the very foundation of heaven and hell. Irrevocably. Irredeemably. Because that's one bad-ass motherfuckin' bird!
~ Unknown
Those who put their faith in fire, in fire their faith shall be repaid.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Be careful of how you treat people. What you do to others has a funny way of coming back to you.
~ Unknown
Revenge? Nah I'm just gonna sit here and let karma fu.. you up.
~ Unknown
When you treat someone with disrespect, expect Karma to treat you no differently.
~ Unknown
What goes around comes around. That's what people say. so all the pain you caused me will come back to you someday.
~ Unknown
I may be hurt because of what you did, but the time will come that you will feel the same.
~ Unknown
Be careful how you treat. What you do to others has a funny way of coming back on you
~ Unknown
Our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses
~ Madeline Miller
Nuestros muertos acuden en pos de su venganza sin considerar la presencia de testigos.
~ Madeline Miller
the Erinyes, our hissing spirits of vengeance, were not always particular.
~ Madeline Miller
But why did the madness come?" "The gods wished to punish him," Chiron answered.
~ Madeline Miller
Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.
~ Madeline Miller
That had done it. Esme had turned at that one. She had snatched up the protractor of Catriona McFarlane, high priestess of the tittering club, and pointed it at her like a divining rod. 'You know what you are, Catriona McFarlane?' Esme had said. 'You are a sad creature. You are mean-spirited, soulless. You are going to die alone and lonely. Do you hear me?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
our law says you do not hurt someone unless they hurt you.
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
My dad was Callum McGregor. Hanged for political terrorism. Hanged for being a rapist and a murderer. Hanged for being a son of a bitch.
~ Malorie Blackman
Political terrorism which results in the death or serious injury of even one Cross always has been and always will be a capital crime. Those found guilty will suffer the death sentence, no two ways about it …
~ Malorie Blackman
Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!!
~ Mandy M. Roth
According to another contemporary author, writing in the 970s, the king ordered that thieves and robbers were to be punished by having their eyes put out, their ears ripped off, their nostrils carved open and their hands and feet removed, before being scalped and left in the open fields at night to be eaten by wild beasts and birds.
~ Unknown
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN, HERE FIND FIT RETRIBUTION, EMPTY AS THEIR DEED
~ John Milton