(115 quotes found)
“Vengeance has no foresight”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”
Bible
“Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord”
“When the blameless and the righteous die, the very gods for vengeance cry”
Vlad Taltos
“Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold”
English Proverb
“Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind... And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again... Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free.”
Lewis B. Smedes
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.”
“Just vengeance does not call for punishment.”
Pierre Corneille
“Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man / it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country.”
Denis Diderot
