Vengeance Quotes - Page 8

• Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.

  Hillel the Elder

  Skulls, Water, Floating

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• Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Punishment, Individual

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• Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

  Nicole Kidman

  Grief, Lazy, Conflict

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• Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

  George Eliot

  Joy, Soul, Desire

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda0: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.2

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• Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

  Charles Dickens

  Compassion, Sick, Confusion

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.825, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

  Roger Zelazny

  Good Night, Sweet, Hands

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Forgiveness, Evil, Done

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspiring, Revenge, People

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage

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• It had been so good to see his enemy again. Positively heartwarming. Hallmark really needed to start up a line of revenge cards, the kind that let you reach out to those you were going to come after with a vengeance. - Lash

  J.R. Ward

  Revenge, Enemy, Cards

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.371, Penguin

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.

  Terry Goodkind

  Magic, Retribution, Used

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.95, Head of Zeus

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• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

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• The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Clouds, Wind

  CHARLES DICKENS (1873). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.153

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• I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Directors, Titles, Masterpiece

  "Interview: The Host & Mother Writer/Director Bong Joon-ho". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. March 15, 2010.

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• Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their fellow-beings, have not failed to attribute to the Universal Cause a character analogous with their own. The image of this invisible, mysterious Being is more or less excellent and perfect — resembles more or less its original — in proportion to the perfection of the mind on which it is impressed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  God, Character, Perfect

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.270

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• Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Gratitude, Tree, Fruit

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2010.

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• In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

  Keith O'Brien

  Attitude, Compassion, Hands

  "Lockerbie bomber: Scottish Catholic leader attacks US 'culture of vengeance'" by Jenny Percival, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2010.

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• All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Hatred, Campaigns

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• As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

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• Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.

  Joan Jett

  Fun, Book, People

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• Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.

  Jan Karon

  Reading, Enemy, Quitting

  Jan Karon (2005). “At Home in Mitford”, Penguin Books

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• An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

  J. Milton Hayes

  Heart, Knives, Yellow

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• "You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect me. I live every day in a climate of emotion. For the first century of my life, I lived in a world of bloodthirsty vengeance. Hate was my constant companion." - Jasper Hale

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Feelings, Vampire

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

  Zadie Smith

  Moon, Hands, Female

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Giving Up, Hate

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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