| 2.2 – Player | Pyrrhus’ bleeding sword / Now falls on Priam. |
| 5.2 – Laertes to Hamlet | The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, / Unbated and envenomed. |
| 2.2 – Hamlet | O vengeance! … I, the son of the dear murder, / Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell |
| 3.4 – Hamlet to Ghost | Then what I have to do / Will want true colour: tears perchance for blood. |
| 4.7 – Laertes | I have a speech of fire than fain would blaze, / But that this folly douts it. |
| 1.5 – Hamlet | thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain |
| Henry VI Part 3 – Richard | burns me up with flames that tears would quench. |
| The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd – Revenge | Nor dies Revenge, although he sleep awhile; / For in unquiet, quietness is feigned |
| Peter Alexander | The desire for vengeance is seen as part of a continuing pattern of human conduct |
| Soren Kierkegaard | [betting there is a God] enables us to fulfil a demand of the absolute, although we outgo the laws of worldly ethics. |
| Francis Bacon | Revenge is a kind of wild justice |
| Catherine Belsey | Revenge exists on a margin between justice and crime |
Hamlet Quotations: Revenge/Justice
September 2, 2019