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Quotes About Vengeance

any eye at all practiced in the signs of a frontier warfare, might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results which attends an Indian vengeance. Still, the sun rose on the Lenape a nation of mourners.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
They linger yet,      Avengers of their native land.—Gray
~ James Fenimore Cooper
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
~ Louis L'Amour
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
~ Arthur Keith
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
~ Aristotle
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
~ Euripides
Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
It is one thing for traditions to die out of themselves; it is quite another for them to be killed by men who think they know everything, by men whose vengeance extends even to the past, even to the dead.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.
~ Thomas Aquinas
But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.
~ Thomas Bulfinch
But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion—jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred—which will create a hell within him; and into this hell we are to look.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Se for necessário fazer mal a um homem, então que seja de tal forma grave, que não haja razão para temer a sua vingança.
~ Nicolau Maquiavel
He stopped at the base of the steps, turned her. You're a good daughter. With a casual tap of his finger, he tipped up her chin. And not a half-bad person, as people go. Oh, I can be bad. If he hurts her, David's going to find out just how bad I can be. I'll hold him down, you skin him. That's a deal.
~ Nora Roberts
Cybil pushed to her feet. If he hurts her, I'll twist off his dick and feed it to his dog. With that, she stormed out of the room. She's a little scary, Fox decided. She's not the only one. I'm the one who'll be roasting his balls for dessert. Layla headed out behind Cybil. I have to find something to make for dinner. Oddly, I don't have much of an appetite right now. Fox glanced at Gage. How about you?
~ Nora Roberts
Or better yet, may all the gods who ever were bless us, and help us send the bloody bastard to hell.
~ Nora Roberts
Yo te maldigo a ti y a todos los de tu sangre. Te aplastaré con mis puños, exprimiré lo que eres en un cáliz de plata y beberé de él.
~ Nora Roberts
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go murder a man.
~ Nora Roberts
He knows that, too. All of it. He feeds on their rage and fears. The weaker minds, so many, he uses. Whispering threats, promises in equal measure. Worship me, bow to me, and I will one day grant you your vengeance.
~ Nora Roberts
If it was either of them, they're going to look a whole lot worse than you before I'm finished.
~ Nora Roberts
Take your time. It'll give me the opportunity to plan several ways to make you suffer.
~ Nora Roberts
If you don't quit following me, I will kill every man you've got. I'll burn down your house and rearrange your furniture. I will not pray for you and not for your children and not for your children's children. I'll get inside your dreams. I will contact Roberto Duran. We're very close friends. Did you know that? Do you understand me? Good.
~ Chuck Klosterman