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Quotes About Vengeance

Bran held his voice level. In time, you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer. --Bran to Eamonn
~ Juliet Marillier
Another man might have taken vengeance in blood and fire, or made an end of himself. Regan is stronger than that. There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on figting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow.
~ Juliet Marillier
revenge is like sipping poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Karin Slaughter
They thought vengeance made it easier, when, in fact, all it did was fester the sorrow.
~ Karin Slaughter
I've got my foot so far up your ass that you can taste my nail polish in the back of your throat.
~ Karin Slaughter
In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness, With darkness to pattern man's fate. The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue - For the blackness of Evil knows various shades, Full many as Evil has names. Vengeance and Madness, inseparable twins, Born together and worshipped as one; Nor can the Gods tell one from his brother. In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness And darkness weaves with many shades.
~ Karl Edward Wagner
An eye for an eye," Mac said at the squadron reunion. Until everyone was blind, Teddy wondered?)
~ Kate Atkinson
Wronged wives were a law unto themselves.
~ Kate Atkinson
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
~ Ishmael
They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
~ John Wesley
creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.
~ Marjorie Benton Cooke
I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
~ Juliet Marillier
Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.
~ Tracey Forbes
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
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
~ Bill Vaughan
You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.
~ George R. R. Martin
I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
~ Patricia Briggs
You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.
~ Patricia Briggs
Harte sent one of her revived men after him, and Pat sent him back in boxes.
~ Rachel Caine
Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
~ Sean Price
Adron! Don't you hurt him. (Kiara) I'm not going to hurt him, Mom. I'm going to kill him. (Young Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
~ Julian Clary
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
~ Johann Georg Hamann