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Quotes About Retribution

Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.
~ Hesiod
Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
~ Hiawatha
It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.
~ Hilary Mantel
You will see that it is not in your interests to protect the gentlemen who share your sin. Because if the position were reversed, believe me, they would not spare a thought for you.
~ Hilary Mantel
When someone insults you, even murder is forgivable? I see. What you told me is very important. You insulted that innocent old man's life. So I changed one of your guns into a banana. You should savor your last meal as best you can.
~ Unknown
If he thought I was bad, I would be worse. If he thought I was cruel, I would be horrifying.
~ Holly Black
She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat," Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. "And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.
~ Holly Black
I thought I was playing the game of pissing off people who hated me already and eating the consequences.
~ Holly Black
Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
~ Holly Black
You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it." "Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you.
~ Holly Black
You may win in the end, you may ensorcell me and hurt me and humiliate me, but I will make sure you lose everything I can take from you on the way down.
~ Holly Black
I know what you did," he drawled, voice low, not at all sounding like he was asking a question. "Wicked girl. Yet you let your sister take the brunt of my ire. That wasn't very nice, was it?
~ Holly Black
She's going to want to wear your skull for a hat,' Oak warns. There is an uncomfortable shifting among the ex-falcons. Perhaps they are recalling their own choice to denounce her, their own punishment. 'And Cardan is going to laugh and laugh when she does.
~ Holly Black
But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.
~ Holly Black
than to be mad at the people who deserve it.
~ Holly Black
For a moment, Cardan just stares at me with stupid, crow-black eyes. Then one corner of his mouth curls. "Oh," he says. "You're going to regret doing that." I don't think he realizes just how angry I am or how good it feels, for once, to give up on regrets.
~ Holly Black
if you hurt me, i would'nt cry. i would hurt you back.
~ Holly Black
I would live down to his every expectation. If I couldn't have his favor, then I would have his wrath.
~ Holly Black
Revenge is sweet, but ice cream is sweeter
~ Holly Black
If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.
~ Holly Black
Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?
~ Holly Near
The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath.
~ Homer
Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?
~ Lian Hearn