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Quotes About Vengeance

Arya slid her dagger out and drew it across his throat, as smooth as summer silk. His blood covered her hands in a hot gush and he tried to shout but there was blood in his mouth as well. "Valar morghulis," she whispered as he died.
~ George R.R. Martin
With scarcely a moment's respite, they began to play a very different sort of song. No one sang the words, but Catelyn knew "The Rains of Castamere" when she heard it. Edwyn was hurrying toward a door. She hurried faster, driven by the music. Six quick strides and she caught him. And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
~ George R.R. Martin
Sleep on your stone pillow, and let the gulls peck out your eyes while the crabs feast on your flesh. You've feasted on enough of them, you owe them.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Gregor, it went, Dunsen, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei. She ended it with valar morghulis,
~ George R.R. Martin
Bitter old women with a taste for blood. Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.
~ George R.R. Martin
Clegane would grunt from time to time, and once Tyrion heard him mutter a curse, but otherwise he fought in a sullen silence. Not Oberyn Martell. "You raped her," he called, feinting. "You murdered her," he said, dodging a looping cut from Gregor's greatsword. "You killed her children," he shouted, slamming the spearpoint into the giant's throat, only to have it glance off the thick steel gorget with a screech.
~ George R.R. Martin
Never wound a foe when you can kill him. Dead men don't claim vengeance.
~ George R.R. Martin
You ought to thank me for killing your enemy," Jon said finally, "and curse me for killing your friend.
~ George R.R. Martin
Each night before sleep, she murmured her prayer into her pillow. "Ser Gregor," it went. "Dunsen, Raff the Sweetling, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, Queen Cersei." She would have whispered the names of the Freys of the Crossing too, if she had known them. One day I'll know, she told herself, and then I'll kill them all.
~ George R.R. Martin
I will answer injustice with justice.
~ George R.R. Martin
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
~ George R.R. Martin
A headsman's sword is no fit end for brave Ser Gregor. We have prayed so long for his death, it is only fair that he pray for it as well.
~ George R.R. Martin
When the two men were ten yards apart, the Red Viper stopped and called out, "Have they told you who I am?" Ser Gregor grunted through his breaths. "Some dead man.
~ George R.R. Martin
She narrowed her eyes. "What is our heart's desire?" "Vengeance." His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening.
~ George R.R. Martin
When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one.
~ George R.R. Martin
His father took off the man's head with a single sure stroke. Blood sprayed out across the snow, as red as summerwine.
~ George R.R. Martin
You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion
~ George R.R. Martin
We're not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to rip out their living goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
~ Machiavelli
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
~ Juvenal
Revenge is an inhuman word.
~ Seneca
They were all there.And all of them,these days,were as if drunk with bitterness,from desire for vengeance and longed to punish and to kill whomsoever they could,since they could not punish or kill those whom they wished.
~ Ivo Andri?
Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
~ J.D. Robb
An eye for an eye." "That's a revenge thing, right? From some play." "The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.
~ J.D. Robb