Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. [ J. Ford ]
Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame. [ Spenser ]
When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day,
Fancy restores what vengeance snatched away. [ Pope ]
Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence. [ Alfieri ]
To the just Gods, not us, pertaineth vengeance. [ Thomson ]
Life without a friend is death with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]
On wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong. [ Pope ]
Where villainy goes before vengeance follows after. [ Proverb ]
Virtue carries a reward with it; and so does vice with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]
We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence. [ Madame Deluzy ]
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. [ Pestalozzi ]
Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]
A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. [ David Thomas ]