Quotes About Retribution

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

It occurred to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

You may have noticed in the paper yesterday, God dropped a church roof on thirty-four of His worshipers in Texas Wednesday night—just as they were groveling through a hymn. Don't you think that felt good?

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as it is to the sufferer.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Fate punishes the proud

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

It's a reckoning I'm after.

True justice is dispensed in alleys.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

Using a man for his money is payback for men using women for, well, just about everything.

He was working late to plant evidence that, he hoped, would lead to the arrest and conviction of a reprobate named Brantley "B. G." Myers. Planting evidence required stealth, skill, and planning. Cody was up for the job. In fact, it was one of his specialties.

It seemed comeuppance would slam down like the steel grille of a discount electronics store

Yet the profound irony was that our killer believed he was providing himself with just those things: vengeance for the child he had been, protection for the tortured soul he had become.

Strike so that he may feel he is dying.

Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread.

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

Karma's not like a bank. Make a deposit, take a withdrawal. But more and more, I am starting to suspect that all this is payback for something—only not the good kind.

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

Also, I don't want her suspended after only two days just because she did the entire school a favor and fed you your own teeth.

In his owene grece I made hym frye.

Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.