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Quotes About Retribution

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
~ Rick Riordan
So I saved your life, and you repaid me by raising Kronos. That's fair.
~ Rick Riordan
If you mess with my friend, I will personally feed you to a great white shark.
~ Rick Riordan
eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
~ Kate Atkinson
She could understand why someone might want to kill a queue jumper. If it had been up to her she would have summarily executed a great many people by now—people who dropped litter in the street, for example, they would certainly think twice about the discarded sweet wrapper if it resulted in being strung up from the nearest lamppost.
~ Kate Atkinson
Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.
~ Kate Brian
There is revenge and then there is justice. Sometimes the two are met as one. -Christopher
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
always thought killers should be locked away in tiny cells with nothing to do but think about their crimes until they die.
~ Kay Hooper
A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal
~ Kelley Armstrong
Patrick turned to Gabriel. "This is your revenge, isn't it?
~ Kelley Armstrong
You ever get into that shit again? Lotta trees behind Stonehaven. I'll string you up from one." "And let the crows peck at my corpse?" "Nah. Doesn't hurt if you're already dead.
~ Kelley Armstrong
A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.
~ Ken Follett
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you
~ Ken Follett
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.
~ Ken Follett
We never forgive those we've wronged.
~ Ken Follett
They who live by the sword shall die by the sword. Jesus said, although that verse was not often quoted by the priests of King Edward III's reign. Fiat voluntas tua : They will be done [Latin]
~ Ken Follett
Las vejaciones a las que sometes a los demás regresan, tarde o temprano, para torturarte»
~ Ken Follett
I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
~ Lucan
I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.
~ Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
~ Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
I'd of shot him in town if he lived that long.
~ William R. Forstchen
Let the punishment fit the crime.
~ William Schwenck Gilbert
For 'tis the sport to have the enginerHoist with his own petar.
~ William Shakespeare