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Quotes About Vengeance

I didn't do anything to you." "You're right. You didn't. And if I kept shouting 'Revenge!' the whole time I was cutting you, that argument would have some substance. But since I've given no indication that my actions are vengeance-based, it was a pointless thing to say.
~ Jeff Strand
I knew what had caused this. It was Roger's sudden desire for children. That bastard's brain waves had infiltrated my scrotum, reconnecting my vas deferens and causing me to impregnate my wife, allowing him to vicariously experience the joys of new fatherhood. I was going to kick his ass the next time I saw him.
~ Jeff Strand
I will never stop being pissed. He has now created a 'lifetime of seeking vengeance' scenario.
~ Jeff Strand
This is who I am, Séraphine. Naked, with blade and blood. I am vengeance. I am hate. I am sin personified. Never mistake me for the hero of this tale, for I am not and shall never be. I am the villain.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
I've never violated any woman." "Have you killed?" He paused at that, before reaching into the wardrobe to move aside her spare day gown. "Once or twice. The men deserved it, I assure you.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Vengeance is not justice; vengeance is not wise.
~ Elizabeth Moon
He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.
~ Ellen Kushner
Even grief has its arrogance." "Then you have learned, my son, that vengeance belongs only to God?" "More than that, Father," said Luc. "I have learned that in God's hands vengeance is safe. However long delayed, however strangely manifested, the reckoning is sure.
~ Ellis Peters
Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
By Heaven, had I the teeth of Caucasus Red-hot from Promethean agonies, And tusks more lucid than the lunar snows, On those jagged lawns of Asia, cavernous With many a dragon banquet-eyes like those Minerva made of flint to shatter Jove-- I'd hurl their hate upon thee, and myself Die in a red parabola of Fate! --Ernest Wheldrake, The Monomaniac's Tragedy
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
But I like the old themes, temptation, vengeance, hate.
~ Alice Notley
but you were moving on: monotonous vindictive
~ Alice Oswald
Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue.
~ Alison Weir
There's a fine line between justice and revenge. The difference is in the motive.
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
If I'm right,' she said, 'and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you'll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell.
~ Ally Blake
There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.
~ Ally Carter
I don't think Rachel Morgan would want to work beside the man who killed her husband. - Townsend
~ Ally Carter
Entonces le toca aprender que la venganza nunca da, que siempre quita, y a medida que va pasando el tiempo, el rencor desdibujándose en la monótona grisura de los días sin emoción, los celos dejarán de morderla para tumbarse a sus pies como un perro saciado de su rabia, y empezará a soñar con él, dormida y sobre todo despierta, tal y como era cuando le conoció, tan joven, tan guapo, tan digno de su amor.
~ Almudena Grandes
But his widow never did get married again. Aaron had seen to that.
~ Alvin Schwartz
O Lord! If you give us victory, I shall see that no enemy warrior is left alive until their river runs with their blood!
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn
Mon désir de vengeance m'a littéralement asphyxié.
~ Amelie Nothomb
You were a prick and a crook, but no one deserves to go out the way you went. I hope it was over quick and that you tasted like ass all the way down. Amen.
~ Richard Kadrey
Abandon all hope ye who piss me off.
~ Richard Kadrey
Stark: So, you think Mason knows I'm back. Vidocq: You just blew up his home. He might suspect something.
~ Richard Kadrey