(115 quotes found)
“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
“Where vice is vengeance follows.”
Scottish Proverb
“Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow”
Sir Walter Scott
“Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance.”
William Shakespeare
