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Quotes About Vengeance

He that slays shall be slain.
~ Scottish Proverb
I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Yes, I've killed! I've killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.
~ N.B. Roberts, Halton Cray
This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.
~ Patricia Briggs, On the Prowl
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
~ Michael Moorcock
Tate was probably on his way back to the nation's capitol right now, she thought miserably. He would have protected her, and her child, but she'd sent him off in a fury. Great going, Cecily, she told herself. What a headline they'll have now! Former Teenage Love Slave Killed By Vengeful Gambling Syndicate. That would give people something to read with their morning coffee!
~ Diana Palmer
and what's in it," Paul said. His eyes narrowed. "After what he did to Isabel and Merrie, I'll be at every damned parole hearing he gets for the rest of my life." "So will they, I imagine," Cash said. "The difference is that he won't have money to buy high-powered attorneys." "Poetic justice.
~ Diana Palmer
You owe me. You roasted my father.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Everything might have come right in the course of time. Russian life could have been pulled into order. . . . What bitch woke up Lenin? Who couldn't bear the child sleeping? There is no precise answer to this question. . . . Anyway, he himself probably didn't know, although his supply of vengeance never dried up. . . .
~ Donald Rayfield
Don't you have any desire for vengeance? he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.
~ Donna Leon
If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.
~ J.A. Konrath
ha-shem to do His dirty work, namely, punishing sin. It can be read that Mastema, not Adonai,
~ J.A. Konrath
Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.
~ J.D. Robb
This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don't even care, do you?
~ J.K. Simmons
Kill them all, and you are a god.
~ Unknown
Reece nodded, remembering all that his friends had done to help him avenge his family and his Team. There had been an emptiness to those killings. Born of pure rage, their purpose had been death unto itself. What he'd done since Freddy tracked him down in Mozambique had been different. The purpose of the killing he'd done on this new mission had been life.
~ Unknown
Wake up, old man. He plans more than a cheat. He plans a hit. I know. I can read it in his eyes.
~ Jackie Collins
I've loved you since the first moment I saw you," he said at last, the words rushed and full of rolling emotions. "Sitting there in powder blue and waiting for your killer so you could turn the table and slaughter his heart instead." - Guin (Pleasure)
~ Jacquelyn Frank
A movement that begs for vengeance disguised as justice will not be as constructive or strong as beautiful as the movement that begs for peace!
~ Unknown
Vengeance does not satisfy. It sometimes gluts, but it does not satisfy. The duelist, angered by insult or wrong, challenges his enemy to a duel, runs his sword through the body of his opponent, leaves the life-blood oozing out of his arteries, wipes his sword, and walks off in the brightness of the morning. Satisfied? Never! Nemesis follows him; the vision is ever before his eyes; he has taken his vengeance, and the vengeance itself nestles in his heart and breeds future penalty.
~ Lyman Abbott
I was chosen, too, you fatherless son of a whore. [...] But it's my people at the Cockerel that I'll kill you for, and for what you did to Alec. For the runners and keeks you used and betrayed, the innocents who've died at your order. Hell, I'll kill you for the sheer fun of it. Come on, Lord Eater of Shit. Let's get this over with.
~ Lynn Flewelling
Afterwards, when Agamemnon would ask him when he would confront the prince of Troy, he would smile his most guileless, maddening smile. "What has Hector ever done to me?
~ Madeline Miller
You have killed him and taken your vengeance. It is enough." "It will never be enough," he says. FOR THE FIRST TIME since my death, he falls into a fitful, trembling sleep. Achilles. I cannot bear to see you grieving. His limbs twitch and shudder. Give us both peace. Burn me and bury me. I will wait for you among the shades.
~ Madeline Miller