Definition of Vengeance

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Definition of Vengeance
	Vengeance Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge. Harm; mischief. Related Definitions: An, Bad, For, Harm, In, Inflicted, Injury, Mischief, Offense, Often, Or, Passionate, Punishment, Retribution, Return, Revenge, Sense

Vengeance Quotations

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.
Vittorio Alfieri

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Samuel Johnson

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones

Vengeance Translations

vengeance in Dutch is wraak
vengeance in French is vengeance
vengeance in German is Rache
vengeance in Italian is vendetta
vengeance in Spanish is venganza

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