Sweet is revenge—especially to women.
"Pis more noble to forgive, and more manly to
despise, than to revenge an Injury.
Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1752)
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| text = <poem>Revenge is profitable.
Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch.XI.
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
Homer—Iliad. XVIII. 109.
Behold, on wrong
Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. VIII. L. 367
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At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe
hoc indocti.
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think
fools.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 180.
Minuti
Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas
Ultio.
. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a
little and narrow mind.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 189. '
Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 191.
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| text = <poem>Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
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Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.
I will not leave you until I have seen you
hanged. •
Moliere—Le Medecin Malgre' Lui. III. 9.
One sole desire, one passion now remains
To keep life's fever still within his veins,
Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast
O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.
Moore—La.Ua Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of
Khorassan.
Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.
Those who plot the destruction of others
often fall themselves.
Pmsdrus—Fables. Appendix. VI. 11.
'Tis an old tale, and often told;
But did my fate and wish agree,
Ne'er had been read, in story old,
Of maiden true betray'd for gold,
That loved, or was avenged, like me!
Scott—Marmion. Canto II. St. 27.
Vengeance to God alone belongs;
But, when I think of all my wrongsMy blood is liquid flame!
Scott—Marmion. Canto VI. St. 7.
Inhumanum verbum est ultio.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
Seneca—Delra. II. 31.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 47.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 55.
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 334.
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Titus Andronicus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 38.
Malevolus animus abditos dentes habet.
The malevolent have hidden teeth.
Strus—Maxims.
Odia in longum jaciens, quae reconderet, auctaque promeret.
Laying aside his resentment, he stores it up
to bring it forward with increased bitterness.
Tacitus—Annates. I. 69.
Souls made of fire and children of the sun,
With whom Revenge is virtue.
Young—The Revenge. Act V.
REVOLUTION
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring
from trifles.
Aristotle—Politics. Bk. VII. Ch. IV.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution
is a transfer of power.
Bulwer-Lytton—Speech. In the House of
Commons, on the Reform Bill. (1866)
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| text = <poem>Voulez-vous done qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?
Do you think then that revolutions are
made with rose water?
Sebastian Chamfort to Marmotel, who regretted the excesses of the Revolution.
Ce n'est pas une revolte, e'est une revolution.
It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
Due de Liancourt to Louis XVI, July 14,
1789. Found in Carlyle's French Revolution. Pt. I. Bk. V. Ch.VII.
Je suis le signet qui marque la page oil la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort,
elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.
I am the signet which marks the page where
the revolution has been stopped; but when I
die it will turn the page and resume its course.
Napoleon I. to Count Mole.
