# The "Revenge Is Sweet" Quote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revenge-is-sweet-quote/83303>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revenge-is-sweet-quote/83303 "2001-09-23T05:32:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revenge-is-sweet-quote/83303/21 "2001-09-24T04:07:48Z")

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You are right. I am very mistaken. It is not from Hamlet. I apologize. My old synaptic gaps must be misfiring.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revenge-is-sweet-quote/83303/22 "2001-09-24T07:10:05Z")

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> . . .&nbsp;O, a kiss  
> Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!  
> —Coriolanus: V,iii

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> Not Cassio kill’d! then murder’s out of tune,  
> And sweet revenge grows harsh.  
> –Othello: V,ii

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> O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;  
> And, if one arm’s embracement will content thee,  
> I will embrace thee in it by and by.  
> . . .  
> I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell.  
> —Titus Andronicus: V,ii

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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-revenge-is-sweet-quote/83303/23 "2001-09-24T07:29:23Z")

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And from Byron in Don Juan:

_Sweet is revenge - especially to women._

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