Quotes About Vengeance

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You did me right when it mattered. I return the favor. Always. That being said, you compromise my happy home in any way, I'll slice off your balls and feed them to you." I love Wrath, Qhuinn thought.

Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend.

No quiero que pienses que soy cruel." "La crueldad es diferente de la venganza." Bella se imaginaba que eso era cierto en el mundo de los guerreros.

Si alguien se atreve a hacerte daño alguna vez —declaró Qhuinn en Lengua Antigua—, prometo perseguirlo hasta verlo atado a una estaca ante mí y dejar su cuerpo en ruinas.

No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.

Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

The great Sugambrian shrugged. "I did. I supposed you've proven your worth. But no man should have to kill his own father. I should know.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

he wrote of his opposition toward harsh punishment for rape, "on account of the temptation women would be under to make it the instrument of vengeance against an inconstant lover, and of disappointment to a rival." The man who had authored the Declaration of Independence was writing to the man who would author the Bill of Rights—to warn of the woman scorned, crying rape.

I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.

This, then, the reason God claimed vengeance for his own? That one not be made unfeeling?

Someone always pays. Bullet don't have nobody's name on it, that's what people say. I think the same is true for vengeance. Maybe even for love. It's out there, random and deadly, like a tornado.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.