That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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  2. Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. - Euripides

  3. We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine

  4. It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. - Seamus Heaney

  5. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

More Quotes By Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  1. Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?

  2. .. . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

  3. Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

  4. The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don’t know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides,...

  5. .. . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.

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