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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Vengeance

Vengeance is without foresight.

Napoleon I.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Cervantes.

Deep, sombre vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Alfieri.

Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.

John Ford.

  • I shall see
  • The winged vengeance overtake such children.
  • Shakespeare.

    In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

    George Eliot.

    In vengeance is found the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

    Juvenal.

    The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

    Shakespeare.