Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
John Ford
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
Barbara Deming
The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
William Shakespeare
Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
English Proverb
Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.
John Ford
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
George Eliot
An essential condition of listening to God is that the mind should not be distracted by thoughts of resentment, ill-temper, hatred or vengeance, all of which are comprised in the general term, the wrath of man.
R. V. G. Tasker
No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
Honore de Balzac
Good Christians should never avenge injuries.
Cervantes
It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Charlotte Bront