Quotes of Redress - somelinesforyou

“ The obvious one is compensation. ”

- Richard Powers

“ You cannot go ahead while you are getting even. ”

- Dick Armey

“ If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow. ”

- John Ford

“ No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. ”

- Bible

“ Though guiltless, you must expiate your fathers' sins. ”

- Horace

“ Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man cansincerely try to help another without helping himself. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ Living well is the best revenge. ”

- George Herbert

“ Revenge is sweet and not fattening. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. ”

- Horace

“ There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Don't get mad, get even. ”

- Robert F. Kennedy

“ There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A society like Canada's, with its four centuries of give-and-take, compromise and acceptance, wrong-doing and redress, is basically a forgiving society. ”

- Adrienne Clarkson

“ Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Things past redress are now with me past care. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Old England liberty — to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. ”

- Captain J. G. Stedman

“ I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. ”

- William Shakespeare
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