Talk:revenge is a dish best served cold

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Citations[edit]

This doesn't necessarily seem like a phrase one would find in a dictionary, but I'm new to Wiktionary. I do think that Khan is a legitimate citation assuming this deserves an entry, unless films are considered inappropriate. I haven't seen Kill Bill, however. Plausibly Deniable 19:23, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkDqwmUAW8c contains the quotation. Plausibly Deniable 19:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If we can find 3 durably archived sources for this phrase, then it belongs in wiktionary. If we can somehow find the original occurrence, then so much the better. Nadando 19:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So Montalban doesn't count? :-( Plausibly Deniable 19:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've created a citations page Citations:revenge is a dish best served cold. Like I said, if you can find some way to reference it (Youtube isn't permanent enough) then it counts. Nadando 19:34, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Something very similar to this was used in the 1949 film "Kind Hearts and Coronets" "Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold." http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=kind-hearts-and-coronets Gfreeman (talk) 00:15, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Les Liaisons Dangereuses[edit]

According to [1] and [2] this line does not appear in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Should this attribution be corrected, or is there a citation which can refute Wikipedia's conflicting version of this information? - 173.230.166.167 07:25, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't cite a source, so I've rephrased that sentence not to take a stance, and added {{unreferenced}}. (I know it's kind of stupid to make an indirect claim about the contents of a public-domain book, but I'm too lazy to try to check this thoroughly enough. :-P   ) —RuakhTALK 02:07, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Exact" phrasing[edit]

A lot of editors seem to misread the current etymology

In English, many variations are attested but the exact phrase […] may originate from the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

as a claim that the phrase itself is from ST. Jberkel 15:05, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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