Vengeance is the punishing of someone for harming you or your friends or family, or the wish for such punishment to happen. Inspirational vengeance quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Vengeance Quotes
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame! – Walter Scott
They say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face-who will love them now?-Mindy Kaling
Vengeance is God’s job, not ours. – F. LaGard Smith
I’m going to get even, I swear I will. Mark my words, I’m a pregnant cranky woman with insomnia. I have time to plot my revenge.-Kim Gruenenfelder
Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another. – Ken Scholes
I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder.-Mingmei Yip
The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance. – Janet Morris
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.-J. K. Rowling
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant’s guilt. – Edward Young
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. – Arthur Schopenhauer
And though the villain ‘scape a while, he feels. Slow vengeance, like a bloodhound, at his heels. – Jonathan Swift
To treat a man with kindness rather than vengeance is the way to move him. Vengeance may break his spirit; but kindness will break his heart. – William Barclay
For vengeance is an emptiness and he that seeketh it wasteth himself. – Jeffery Farnol
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.-Margaret Cho
Revenge is a confession of pain.-Latin Proverb
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. – Confucius
Vengeance cannot abide the agony of grace. – Anne Elisabeth Stengl
In high vengeance there is noble scorn. – George Eliot
I’m not violent, I don’t believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance. – Eva Gabrielsson
Vengeance is mine; I will repay. – Leo Tolstoy
But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.-Exodus
Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.-Christopher Paolini
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
There was a time when metal ruled the world and I don’t see any reason why it should be different now. – Zacky Vengeance
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. – Chuck Jones
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn’t sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. – Gary D. Schmidt
‘Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.-Benjamin Franklin
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.-Mahatma Gandhi
Vengeance has no foresight. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. – Johann Georg Hamann
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. – Eric Hoffer
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. – Pierre Corneille
I’m a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won’t hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat.-Muhammad Ali
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, blood and revenge are hammering in my head. – William Shakespeare
One good act of vengeance deserves another. – John Jefferson
To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. – Criss Jami
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. – Kurt Vonnegut
An eye for an eye is never enough. Never, never, never.-Adrian Phoenix
Vengeance is one of life’s great motivators. – K.S. Brooks
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. – Niccolo Machiavelli
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. – Laura Hillenbrand
While seeking revenge, dig two graves-one for yourself.-Douglas Horton
Vengeance is a form of reciprocity in which each deed begets another. Each act of vengeance is a response to a previous wrong. – James T. Siegel
And you, you better run because I’m going to destroy you for what you’ve taken from me. – Samantha Young
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice. – Criss Jami
Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled. – Richelle E. Goodrich
Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it evil. It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.-Venkatesh G. Rao
I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. – Ian Mcshane
To the extent that our conceptions of justice contain recognizable traces of vengeance, they remain half-baked, primitive and immature. – James P. Sterba
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. – Jane Goldman
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. – Charlotte Bronte
Now just vengeance is taken only for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice. – St. Thomas Aquinas
A society built upon a foundation of vengeance is a society doomed to destroy itself. – Richelle E. Goodrich
I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I’d like to say I’m a big fan of forgiveness as long as I’m given the opportunity to get even first. – Sue Grafton
Revenge proves its own executioner.-John Ford
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
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
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. – Vittorio Alfieri
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. – Alexander Pope
If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. – Toba Beta
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. – Winston Churchill
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. – Samuel Johnson
Vengeance is a delicious fruit, that must ripen in order that we may fully enjoy it. – Émile Gaboriau
