Quotes with vengeance

  • 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.

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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Candice Bergen At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • John Ford Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
    John Ford
    American film director (1894 - 1973)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Beth Ditto I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Maximilien Robespierre 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
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Pierre Corneille Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Winston Churchill Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Pope On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Samuel Johnson Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charlotte Brontë 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 Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Charles Dickens Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Napoleon Vengeance has no foresight.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Barbara Deming 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.
    We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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