
“You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.”
Interview magazine, 1978.
The Heart of Midlothian', Ch. 30 (1818).
Source: The Heart of Mid-Lothian
“You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge.”
Interview magazine, 1978.
“I ain't a killer, but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.”
"Hail Mary"
1990s, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)
“The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge.”
The Great Infidels (1881)
Context: The idea of hell was born of ignorance, brutality, fear, cowardice, and revenge. This idea testifies that our remote ancestors were the lowest beasts. Only from dens, lairs, and caves, only from mouths filled with cruel fangs, only from hearts of fear and hatred, only from the conscience of hunger and lust, only from the lowest and most debased could come this most cruel, heartless and bestial of all dogmas.
“The mouth of hell is full of good resolutions.”
La bocca dell'Inferno e piena di buone volontà.
Del Conoscimento di se stesso, p. 492.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 339.
“It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.”
Inès to Estelle after she has applied lipstick, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Of Phineus
Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book II. Onward to Colchis
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 537
Sunni Hadith
The Truth (1896)
Context: They put a monster—a master—a tyrant in the sky, and seek to enslave their fellow-men. They teach the cringing virtues of serfs. They abhor the courage of manly men. They hate the man who thinks. They long for revenge. They warm their hands at the imaginary fires of hell. I show them that hell does not exist and they denounce me for destroying their consolation.
“Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter”
Source: Undertow