#vengeance

Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers; vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining." - from "The Tarishe Curse ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compensation #deceit #destruction #retaliation #retribution

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#beauty

When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance. ↗

— Justin Guarini

#back #come #coming #drive #fall

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#forgive #forgive-and-forget #forgiveness #future-generation #future-generations

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#vengeance #humor

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#deep #silence #vengeance

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

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly