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Quotes About Vengeance

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!" it said. "I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!" "You burn prettily," I said.
~ Roger Zelazny
Blood! I called out. Give me blood and vengeance this day, my warriors, and you will be remembered in Amber forever! And as a man. they raised their weapons and cried out, Blood!
~ Roger Zelazny
But if John nursed vengeful feelings toward Bill, it must have been secretly gratifying to him that his father left at the very dawn of his triumph and forfeited any claim to his wealth.
~ Ron Chernow
Never forgive, never forget.
~ Lee Child
The prophet Jeremiah said that 'from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain,'18 and the prophet Isaiah said, 'all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.'19 Our good deeds are stained with self-interest and our demands for justice are mixed with lust for vengeance. Ironically, it's the best people who most readily recognize and admit their own shortcomings and sin.
~ Lee Strobel
Soon I will take all you love and watch you burn. Sweet dreams, Object Reader.
~ Libba Bray
Payback was always hell, wasn't it?
~ Linda Howard
In the course of their next two or three meetings he frequently repeated this little act of vengeance. It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective.
~ Aldous Huxley
El odio es ciego, la cólera aturdida y el que vierte la venganza corre el riesgo de beber un brebaje amargo
~ Alejandro Dumas
El Dios de los blancos ordena el crimen. Nuestros dioses nos piden venganza.
~ Alejo Carpentier
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
~ Alexander Dumas
I've put myself in the place of Providence to reward the good ones... and now let the god of vengeance grant me it's place to punish the wicked!
~ Alexander Dumas
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.
~ Alexandre Dumas
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
~ Alexandre Dumas
And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
~ Alexandre Dumas
What a fool I was not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!
~ Alexandre Dumas
And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!
~ Alexandre Dumas
He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Peut-être, dit Athos; mais, en tout cas, écoutez bien ceci: assassinez ou faites assassiner le duc de Buckingham, peut m'importe! je ne le connais pas, d'ailleurs c'est un Anglais; mais ne touchez pas du bout du doigt à un seul cheveux de d'Artagnan, qui est un fidèle ami qu j'aime et que je défends, ou je vous le jure sur la tête de mon père, le crime que vous aurez commis sera le dernier.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Women weep for the dead. Men avenge them.
~ Alexandre Dumas