These vengeance quotes will inspire you. Vengeance punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging vengeance quotes, vengeance sayings, and vengeance proverbs.
Famous Vengeance Quotes
- “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ~ Confucius
- “Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.” ~ Michelle Shocked
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“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.” ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
- “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill,
Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” ~ Quentin Tarantino - “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!” ~ Quentin Tarantino
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“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.” ~ Sulla
- “Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.” ~ Vittorio Alfieri
- “Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “And now, farewell to kindness, humanity, and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.” ~ Alexandre Dumas
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“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile than vengeance.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.” ~ Francis Bacon
- “Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.” ~ Hiawatha
- “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
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“Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” ~ Roberto Assagioli
- “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” ~ Josh Billings
- “Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.” ~ John Ford
- “Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn’t sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.” ~ Gary D. Schmidt , Vengeance quotes is sweet
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“On wrongs, swift vengeance waits.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.” ~ Coretta Scott King
- “Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!” ~ Walter Scott
- “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.” ~ Steve Perry
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“Physical deformity calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.” ~ Clarence Darrow
- “To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.” ~ Criss Jami
- “Revenge is a meal best served cold.” ~ Denzel Washington
- “Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.” ~ Adeline Yen Mah
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“There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don’t see any reason why it should be different now.” ~ Zacky Vengeance
- “One good act of vengeance deserves another.” ~ John Jefferson
- “In the Old Language, she hissed, “If any harm shall befall him, I will come after you, and find you where you sleep. I do not care where you lay your head or who with, my vengeance shall rain upon you until you drown.” That last word was drawn out until its syllable was lost in more growling. Dead silence. Until Doc Jane said dryly, “Annnnd this is why they say the female of the species is more dangerous than the male.” ~ J.R. Ward
- “Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “I studied every page of this book, and I didn’t find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.” ~ Ruth Hurmence Green , Vengeance quotes Bible
- “Dad thinks vengeance is the coolest thing about the Lord. That, and turning water into alcohol.” ~ Christopher Titus
- “Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can’t do any harm. So if King (For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it’s angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn’t kill anybody.” ~ Mike Patton
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“In high vengeance, there is noble scorn.” ~ George Eliot
- “I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We’ve got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who’s asked me to love my enemies – this isn’t a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man’s idea.” ~ Jay Bakker
- “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
- “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
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“Vengeance has no foresight.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.” ~ Chuck Jones
- “My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that.” ~ Stewart Francis
- “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
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“An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Just vengeance does not call for punishment.” ~ Pierre Corneille
- “The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?” ~ Maximilien Robespierre
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“Good Christians should never avenge injuries.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
- “Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.” ~ Faith Popcorn
- “The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.” ~ Rae Foley
- “Vengeance is without foresight.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated” ~ Johann Georg Hamann
- “In theory, it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord’s vengeance, I myself don’t like it.” ~ Robert Shaw
- “No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife’s lover.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don’t even know.” ~ John Legend
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“This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.” ~ Seth Grahame-Smith
- “The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Vengeance is good. You give it, you get it. It’s all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch ’em. They’re cooking up something.” ~ Christopher Titus
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“I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It’s degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.” ~ Segolene Royal
- “Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this – to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.” ~ Tuvia Bielski
- “And personally, I’ve lost my thirst for vengeance.” ~ Janet Morris
Vengeance is the act of doing something to hurt someone because that person did something that hurt you or someone else.
