“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
Charlotte Bronte
“You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.”
James Cameron
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance”
Winston Churchill
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself”
Chinese Proverbs
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Samuel Johnson
“Where vice is vengeance follows.”
Scottish Proverb
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”
Niccolo Machiavelli