A Quote by Alexander Pope

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

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Swift Vengeance Waits Wrongs

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Alexander Pope
English - Poet
May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.

Homer

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Walter Scott

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

What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

A trapped soul waits for redemption. It waits. And waits. For her to take her last breath.

Lisa McMann

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Gary D. Schmidt

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Glen Cook

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

Segolene Royal

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you get to control things, if only on the page. You get to run the show. You can right wrongs, bring departed loved ones back to life, even take vengeance on God, if that's your thing.

Ron Currie Jr.

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!

George R. R. Martin

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Barbara Jordan

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

George R. R. Martin

...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.