Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
— Bible
Vengeance has no foresight.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
It is better to receive than to do injury.
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
— Delsarte
Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
The noblest vengeance is to forgive.
— Proverb
Where vice is vengeance follows.
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.