Vendetta Quotes

“He shook his head, just looking at me.
- "What?" I asked.
- "Nothing" he said.
- "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."
I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"
- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."
- "Never seen it."
- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell."
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life.”
― John Green The Fault in Our Stars

“The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion mixes explosively with (and gives strong sanction to) both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. Without a doubt it is the prime aggravator of the Middle East. Those of us who have for years politely concealed our contempt for the dangerous collective delusion of religion need to stand up and speak out. Things are different now. ‘All is changed, changed utterly.”
― Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

“But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes?”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant

“La miglior vendetta? La felicità. Non c'è niente che faccia più impazzire la gente che vederti felice.”
― Alda Merini

“Hopefully he'll forget about his little vendetta against you.'

'Do most men forget when a woman holds a knife to their balls?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.”
― Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever

“I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.”
― Marie Corelli, Vendetta; or, the Story of One Forgotten

“I trusted in friendship rather than love”
― Marie Corelli, Vendetta; or, the Story of One Forgotten

“A man once told me that there are infinite places love will take you, but revenge is the business of hate, and there is only one place hate will take you---the end. The end of you and the end of everything you once stood for. But I welcomed my end.”
― Tara Brown, A.E Watson

“La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, èur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino, le orge, con il loro et coetera, è altrettanto poco cristiano , e non altrettanto senza effusione di sangue. E' meglio scavalcare il recinto di un parco per appostare una dama od una donzella, che sparare contro un vecchio.”
― Walter Scott

“Police officers are well known for their aggressive behaviors, search "Police Officer Angry Aggression Theory". I can speak from personal experience that they do cover up for each other and target individuals that they have a vendetta on. Police Internal Affairs is just an extension of the cover up machine, they uphold very few complaints.”
― Steven Magee

“If you keep on retaliating what you receive, you'll be stuck in a infinite abyss of revenge and vendetta.”
― Pushkar Saraf

“Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they did it to me so I can do it to them," and, in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero" (1 + 1 = 0).

The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy

“Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era venganza. La venganza no existe. Lo única que importa es la verdad.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El laberinto de los espíritus

“I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.”
― Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill

“La vendetta, caro signore, la vendetta, la quale, pur essendo un peccato da gentiluomo come il vino, le orge, con il loro et coetera, è altrettanto poco cristiano , e non altrettanto senza effusione di sangue. E' meglio scavalcare il recinto di un parco per appostare una dama od una donzella, che sparare contro un vecchio.”
― Walter Scott

“Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“La tromba delle scale era buia. Fu colto da un vago senso di angoscia, a un tratto gli sembrò di non essere solo a salire quei ripidi gradini. Non c’era qualcosa che si muoveva nel buio? Passi silenziosi... ombre attorno a lui.
I morti, i morti di questa battaglia erano venuti anche loro, volevano assistere all’atto finale.
Appoggiato alla ringhiera c’era il vecchio ciambellano nella sua vestaglia rosso ciliegia e gli faceva un cenno col capo. - “Caduto in combattimento” diceva una voce, e per un istante Vittorin vide un volto infantile, il volto sorridente del conte Gagarin. Dal buio giunse in un sussurro la voce di Artemev: “È lei, compagno? L’ho aspettata. Adesso ci mostri che cosa sa fare”. -
Un leggero trepestio, un gemere e sospirare... erano i soldati rossi che lui aveva guidato all’assalto a Miropol’, sotto il fuoco di sbarramento, per via di Seljukov. 
Erano venuti, gli si accalcavano alle spalle, pronti a seguirlo di nuovo.
Dalla finestra del pianerottolo la luce pioveva sulla scala, sulla ringhiera consunta, sull’intonaco bianco del muro. A passi grevi e lenti Vittorin salì gli ultimi gradini. Adesso era davanti alla porta.
Sulla targhetta lesse un nome che non gli diceva nulla, sconosciuto. Una paura improvvisa lo invase: forse arrivava troppo tardi - Seljukov non c’è, è partito ieri, e nessuno sa per dove... Ma mentre ancora rifletteva accadde che sentì filtrare dalla porta chiusa un odore delicato, strano, conosceva quell’odore, lo conosceva dai tempi della Siberia, del campo di Cernavjensk, era l’aroma del tabacco cinese, l’aroma delle sigarette di Seljukov, e chiuse gli occhi e con un senso di benessere inesprimibile aspirò il profumo di un giorno lontano.
Poi suonò.
Dietro quella porta, adesso lo sapeva, c’era Seljukov.”
― Leo Perutz, Little Apple

“Ripensò ai suoi quindici anni di servizio e a tutte le donne che aveva visto uccidere in modo brutale dai loro ex compagni, mariti e fidanzati. Quelle donne non avevano ottenuto giustizia. Sarebbero state per sempre delle anime di carta infilate nell'archivio dei casi risolti solo quando ormai era troppo tardi.”
― Isabella Liberto, Anime di carta

“Non appena arrivai di fronte alla stanza 123 mi arrestai. La porta era chiusa e nessuna luce filtrava dalla serratura o da sotto la porta. Apparentemente la stanza era vuota, ma dopo alcuni istanti udii dei rumori provenienti dall’interno della camera. Mi accostai alla porta per ascoltare meglio. Qualcosa cadde a terra rompendosi; pensai a una finestra rotta o a uno specchio in frantumi ed ebbi paura. Senza tentare di bussare, sfondai la porta della camera e mi precipitai all’interno. Le grida di una ragazza si propagarono nel buio della stanza.”
― Isabella Liberto, La stanza 123

“Il mio sogno di una vita perfetta sarebbe rimasto lì per sempre, sotto le
rose che si erano tinte di nero come l'incubo che avevo vissuto.”
― Isabella Liberto, Il Roseto Nero di Alice De Ravin

“Humans have far longer memories than do animals and, thus revenge -the social settling of accounts with those who offended them- assumes a wholly new level with them.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Possibile che tu non riesca a pensare ad altro che alla tua vendetta?”
― Iny Lorentz

“Ho tanti motivi,
nessuno orecchiabile.”
― Veronica Vitale, Inside The Outsider

“The soulless wanted me dead, and it was personal.”
― Dana Gricken, The Dark Queen

“Io ho visto Steelheart sanguinare.
E lo vedrò sanguinare ancora.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

“Revenge has probably been the most regular and prominent cause of fighting cited in anthropological accounts of pre-state societies. Violence was activated to avenge injuries to honour, property, women, and kin. If life was taken, revenge reached its peak, often leading to a vicious circle of death and counter-death.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“Before the end of the day there will take place what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … All Ike Clanton needed, and had really been seeking all morning, was an audience. He launched into a soliloquy: “You fellows haven’t given me any show at all. You’ve treated me like a dog. Fight is my racket, and all I want is four feet of ground. If you fellows had been a second later, I would have furnished a coroner’s inquest for the town. I will get even with all of you for this. If I had a six-shooter now, I would make a fight with all of you.”
― Tom Clavin, Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell