Quotes About Vengeance

I'm not in a hurry," the woman said. Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice; even Tich was quelled.

In that moment I realized I did know who to feel the most sorry for. The person who'd killed Levi. I'd find them. And when I did? The one shot, one kill motto of the US Army Snipers wouldn't apply.

With feminine vengeance)

The goat herder was so unaccustomed to human company that he was short of words even in his inner speech. It was common knowledge that the Yugoslavs hated each other more than they could ever hate a foreigner or an invader. A guilty man wishes only to be understood, because to be understood is to appear to be forgiven. Atrocities are something nothing less than the vengeance of the tormented. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. Love delayed is lust augmented.

Di wrestled with her knitting as if it were Fate, and she were paying off the grudge she owed

An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.

It was a murder, nothing more. Athos

Insensé, dit-il, le jour où j'avais résolu de me venger, de ne pas m'être arraché le cÅ"ur !

A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God has promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart.

He felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, God is for and with me.

This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.

Yes, indeed, I have often thought with a bitter joy that these riches, which would make the wealth of a dozen families, will be forever lost to those men who persecute me. This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.

The wicked do not die in that way: God seems to take them under his protection to use them as the instruments of his vengeance.

He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it.

He told himself that it was the hatred of men, not the vengeance of God, which had plunged him into the abyss where he now found himself.

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! At these words he gave a signal, and, as if only awaiting this signal, the yacht instantly put out to sea.

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!

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

Having reached the summit of his vengeance by the slow and tortuous route that he had followed, he had looked over the far side of the mountain and into the abyss of doubt.

La haine est aveugle, la colère étourdie, et celui qui se verse la vengeance risque de boire un breuvage amer.

Lebt wohl, Güte, Menschenfreundlichkeit, Dankbarkeit... lebt wohl, ihr sämtlichen Gefühle, die das Herz aufgehen lassen! Ich habe mich an die Stelle der Vorsehung gesetzt, um die Guten zu belohnen... Jetzt möge der Gott der Rache mir sein Amt abtreten, um die Bösen zu bestrafen!

Insensato! - exclamou para consigo - No dia em que resolvera vingar-me deixei que me arrancassem o coração!

adiós, bondad, humanidad y gratitud… , adiós, todos los sentimientos que ennoblecen el alma. He querido ocupar el puesto de la Providencia para recompensar a los buenos… , ahora cédame el suyo el Dios de las venganzas para castigar a los malvados.

It is wicked of you to call on the wrath of God to satisfy your jealousy!