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Quotes About Vengeance

Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
~ Anonymous
Strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be… avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
~ Anonymous
Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him [Sisera], and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground; for he was fast asleep, and weary: so he died.
~ Anonymous
They hanged Haman on the gallows.
~ Anonymous
Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.
~ Anonymous
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
~ Anonymous
Nemo me impune lacessit [No one provokes me with impunity].
~ Anonymous: Latin
He would accept the legacy, avenge his "father"'s death, and succeed to Caesar's power.
~ Anthony Everitt
He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Have we killed everyone who needs killing?
~ Anthony Horowitz
content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that
~ Anthony Horowitz
She wasn't wearing her glasses and she destroyed my life. I went to the funeral because I was delighted she was dead and I wanted to see her put in the ground. I thought it would give me closure.
~ Anthony Horowitz
He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.
~ Francine Mathews
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Francis Bacon
It could be a work of art among vendettas
~ Frank Herbert
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences
~ Frank Herbert
who hate the Harkonnens so much they'll burn a chair in which a Harkonnen has sat, salt the ground over which a Harkonnen has walked.
~ Frank Herbert
Never to forgive—never to forget
~ Frank Herbert
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. —MUAD'DIB ON LAW FROM THE STILGAR COMMENTARY
~ Frank Herbert
Blast and damn that Duncan Idaho!
~ Frank Herbert
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.
~ Frank Miller
The girls all know the score. No escape. No surrender. No mercy. We got to kill every last rat bastard one of them, every last one. Not for revenge. Not because they deserve it. not because it'll make the world a better place. We need a heap of bloody bodies so when the mob boss, Wallenquist, looks over his charts of profits and losses, he'll see what it cost him to mess with the girls of Old Town.
~ Frank Miller
El hombre martirizado por sus demonios se venga ciegamente en su prójimo
~ Franz Kafka
unite all the Greeks and lead them in avenging the wrongs inflicted by the Persians
~ Roderick Beaton