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Quotes About Vengeful

Better to rob the righteous,' muttered Shev as she slipped the oars silently through the rowlocks. 'Evil people tend to be suspicious and vengeful.' Javre
~ Joe Abercrombie
One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances. The damage that vengeful intelligence can wreak, you cannot even imagine.
~ Frank Herbert
There is nothing more vengeful and determined in this world than a cowboy with sore balls, and Gerry soon found out. He also found that white people are good witnesses to have on your side since they have names, addresses, social security numbers, and work phones. But they are terrible witnesses to have against you, almost as bad as having Indians witness for you. (Scales)
~ Louise Erdrich
Noble, wicked, selfish, loyal, stubborn, caring, protective, brutal, powerful, vengeful, loving, strong, fallible, vital Fionn Mór.
~ S. Young
I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't feel pleased with myself while recording this cruelty, even though it was only a cruelty to a doll. It's a vengeful side of my nature that I am sorry to say I have failed to subdue entirely. But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.
~ Margaret Atwood
So that's it then. You're just going to be mean to me. (Artemis) Mean to you? Mean? Fuck you, Artemis! I was butchered on the floor by your brother while you watched it happen. Then, when I was finally happy someplace, gods forbid, you tricked me into drinking your blood to bind me to you. And you think I'm mean? Bitch, please, you haven't seen mean yet. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
So help me, I won't rest until I bathe in your entrails! (Apollymi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
But then, his revenge had been more direct. He'd hunted down the ones who'd killed his sister and nephew – those who'd survived his mother's attack – and he'd made them wish they'd never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why were all his fantasies so calamitous for that table, which had done him no injury?
~ Scott Lynch
Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.
~ Stephen King
to this day, two trials later, Betty still frequently speaks of Dan Broderick, and sometimes Linda, as if they were still alive and well and tormenting her. "He's such a shit!" she exploded one day, nearly fifteen months later, after reciting some past example of his sins against her. "I'd like to kill him!" "But, Betty," her listener replied, "you did." Silence. Pause. Then a small, confused laugh. "Yeah, well … but I didn't get revenge ... he didn't suffer enough.
~ Bella Stumbo
It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.
~ Gillian Flynn
Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.
~ Glen Cook
will avenge your death," he promised softly.
~ Erin Hunter
Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.
~ Betsy Carter
McCarthy was an Irish Catholic small-town judge and a dipsomaniac with a vengeful streak and an exaggerated war record as a Marine tail gunner (he had not actually flown in combat). "Ignorant, crude, boastful, unaware of either intellectual or social refinements
~ Max Boot
everyone's too busy having a good time to care about anyone else. This sucks, Alex said sullenly. If someone murders you and you get revived and come back to wreak vengeance on your killers, they could at least have the decency to notice you.
~ Meg Cabot
I was angry. I wanted blood in the dawn.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Except we were there, and I was in a vengeful mood. My cousin was still in Bebbanburg. Æthelhelm was trying to destroy my daughter and her husband. Constantin had humiliated me by driving me from my ancestral land. I had not seen Eadith, my wife, in a month. So someone had to suffer.
~ Bernard Cornwell
She decided she would find out all she could about Bettina then kill off a character just like her in her next book. The death would be grisly, she promised herself. Slow and painful.
~ Susan Mallery
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
~ Alexander Pope
There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.
~ Steve Allen
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
~ Bryce Courtenay