revenge is sweet
English edit
Phrase edit
- Said when one is satisfied in taking revenge.
- 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 579:
- […] wee can force no anſwere from him, but (Ô reuenge, how ſweet art thou! I will ſtrangle him in this towell) […]
- 1846, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Lucretia: Or The Children of Night. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:
- The ci-devant marquis was caught disguised in her apartment. She betrayed for him a good, easy friend of the people who had long loved her, and revenge is sweet.
- 1866, Charles Reade, Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy, Boston: Ticknor and Fields:
- All revenge is sweet; but what revenge so sweet to any man as that which came to his arms of its own accord? I do notice that men can't read men, but any woman can read a woman.
- 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC:
- With base deceit / You worked upon our feelings! / Revenge is sweet, / And flavours all our dealings!
Translations edit
said when one is satisfied in taking revenge
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Further reading edit
- Jennifer Speake, editor (2015), “REVENGE is sweet”, in Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, 6th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 265.