Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.    From LearnThat.org.  [Winston Churchill (1874-1965).]

vengeance is mine.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge--James Garfield.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

And 'vengeance' is used by the highest authorities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calm Down, Calm Down - Or Not] Reference

Indeed, the word vengeance hadn't crossed their lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

He’d courted her with what he referred to as a vengeance.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Pink Rose] Reference

Stay thy hand and fear not; vengeance is mine, said John Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest] Reference

Let us not revel in vengeance against those who took everything from us.    From Wordnik.com.  [mjh's blog — 2005 — January] Reference

It's not at all clear that vengeance is well suited to providing deterrence and protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

All that stands between the Foolkiller and vengeance is 98 pounds of pure, unadulterated mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvel Comics Solicitations for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference

We regularly ignore the fact that the thirst for vengeance is among the strongest of human emotions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vengeance Is Ours « Isegoria] Reference

Avenging something or someone implies that you have been a victim of outrages and vengeance is required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

But, any girls in high school or college or in any such situation remember vengeance is best served cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Blizzard Boredom Leads to Increase in Petraeus/POTUS Speculation] Reference

The day of vengeance is in his heart, and now his hand shall find out all his enemies, wherever they are, Ps. xxi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

You would tell another story were your own interest in question; and I can tell you that my vengeance is not satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

It was Kirkpatrick's, and he proceeded: – When vengeance is in our grasp, tell me, brave Murray, who will then tremble?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

Not that they deserve it, but to do otherwise would show a lack of grace, and vengeance is a trait only reserved for the weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contempt] Reference

And for one man who would not die, vengeance is now waiting within a fortress of gut - ripping horror between THE QUICK AND THE UNDEAD.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quick and the Undead | BuyZombie.com] Reference

My arrogant blood calls vengeance on an upstart! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weird of the White Wolf]

Your master stands before you now, my vengeance is my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses] Reference

Is then the idea of vengeance nothing but an unclean phantom?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Philosophy] Reference

Came destruction to the foeman -- and the vengeance was the Lord's!.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

Her vengeance is the vengeance of an immortal made victim to mortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

And by the way Mr Broder that's not called vengeance it's called justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garlic] Reference

It was this haughty spirit that called the vengeance of the Lord upon us. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference

(Or at least give me a sense of personal vengeance, which is more important.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Orbitz is the Workshop of Satan] Reference

But his vengeance was to be a great vengeance, and the vengeance was delayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

It combines directly with vengeance, which is a primary passion of human nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference

It was utterly impossible to keep the idea of vengeance altogether out of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Weird Tales] Reference

You have a sacred duty to perform, more binding far than vengeance, which is the Lord's alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamentable Fate of the Victim of His Passion, and the Shadow's Punishment] Reference

A couple of years ago, mission style came back with a vengeance, which is an arts and crafts style.    From Wordnik.com.  [burlingtonfreepress.com -] Reference

They are people motivated by vengeance, which is a strong motive, and also jealousy that want to see him in jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2006] Reference

He had publicly declared that of all forms of treason the hiding of traitors from his vengeance was the most unpardonable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference