Vengeance

(251 votes)   Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(198 votes)   Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(160 votes)   Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(157 votes)   Where vice is vengeance follows.

Scottish Proverbs
Sayings of Scottish Origin

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(142 votes)   It is better to receive than to do injury.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(136 votes)   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
1758-1794, French Revolutionary Leader

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(130 votes)   Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow.

John Ford
c.1586-c.1640, British Playwright

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(128 votes)   Vengeance has no foresight.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(122 votes)   The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.

Delsarte

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(113 votes)   The noblest vengeance is to forgive.

Proverbs

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