Vengeance Quotes - Page 6

• I can't hate people that much. Don't get me wrong. I want to murder every last Keeper I can find. But that's not hate. That's vengeance.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hate, People, Want

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.204, Penguin

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• Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

  Lord Byron

  Political, Enough, Mankind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.900, Delphi Classics

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• For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.

  Xavier Forneret

  Revenge, Heart, Dark

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• We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

  Arthur Miller

  Children, Crazy, Writing

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.339, Penguin

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• The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Justice, Charity, Source

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• A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Sweet, Comforting, Secret

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• For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Revenge, Men, Needs

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.9, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Vengeance only destroys the one who seeks it. (Theo- Geary’s Grandfather/Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grandfather

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• Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

  Homer

  Art, Strong, Revenge

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.96

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• If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Black, Stains, Ifs

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.60, The Overlook Press

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• The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

  Victor Hugo

  Expression, Law, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Men, Creation, Dangerous

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• Mercy is "stronger and more God-like than vengeance".

  Helen Prejean

  Stronger, Mercy

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2017

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• While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the Lord should be left to handle such things without assistance.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Males, Might, Highlander

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1089, Delacorte Press

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• The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

  Carl Jung

  Soul, Done, Memories Dreams Reflections

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Men, Envy

  Charles Dickens (1856). “Household Words”, p.504

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• Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

  Max Lucado

  Perfect, Justice, Looks

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2013

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• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

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• All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first" Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance

  Sue Grafton

  Long, Fans, Records

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• Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. "I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!" "I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind. "Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Wind, Bridges

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• Vengeance is a dish best served cold. (Thanatos) We’re in Alaska, dickhead. Here everything is cold. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Alaska, Cold, Dishes

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

  Alberto Moravia

  Loyalty, Self, People

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.93, New York Review of Books

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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