Vengeance Quotes

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Pierre Corneille

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Samuel Johnson

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Chuck Jones

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Winston Churchill

Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Bible

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Vengeance has no foresight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.

Delsarte

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Jane Porter

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Juvenal

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

Vengeance is sweet.

William Painter

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

John Jefferson