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Quotes About Retribution

There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to punish them.
~ Anne Bronte
I daresay in a way he deserved it, Joseph agreed with reluctance. But which of us can afford what we deserve? I need better, don't you?
~ Anne Perry
Crime must be paid for, but not all sins or mistakes need be made public and explained for everyone to examine and remember. And sometimes victims were punished doubly, once by the offense itself, and then a second and more enduring time when others heard of it, pored over it, and imagined every intimate detail.
~ Anne Perry
Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven't tears enough for what you've done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!' Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia's name. But Claudia did not hear her. 'Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.
~ Anne Rice
The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
~ Anne Rice
Is there any one of us who doesn't want to strike back at all the evil in this world?
~ Anne Rice
Vengeance, blind and sterile and contemptible.
~ Anne Rice
I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women who have expired on the rack or in cold prison cells, for the families destroyed and for the villages laid waste by these awful lies.
~ Anne Rice
The men deserve what will happen to them. As a species, they will reap what they have sown.
~ Anne Rice
Hell is hatred.
~ Anne Rice
Revenge was a dish best served cold.
~ Anne Stuart
I'll see you in hell." "Ah, but you'll be there first, my dear. Move.
~ Anne Stuart
No, I want to take you out back and beat your fucking head on the floor.
~ Sebastian Faulks
Is revenge a circle inside of a circle inside of a circle?
~ Sherman Alexie
But God has a way of making things even out, I guess.
~ Sherman Alexie
Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No good deed goes unpunished- Syn
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We're in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cause I'm gonna put my foot so far up their butts they're going to burp shoe leather. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There's only so many times you can kick a dog before it turns viscous. (Julian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A little bloodthirsty, isn't it? (Kim) Given what they did to Tory, I'm thinking a quick death is merciful. Not to mention they ruined one of my favorite jackets and totaled my bike. (Acheron) Well, let's just torture then bomb the bastards. How dare they! (Pam)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon