A Quote by Mason Cooley

Revenge is sweet but not nourishing.

Mason Cooley

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Revenge Revenge Is Sweet Sweet

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.

Errol Morris

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Alfred Hitchcock

Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

Lord Byron

I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.

Ishmael Beah

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

Tracey Emin

Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

Sarah Jakes

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

Edmund Spenser

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Nellie L. McClung

There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

Robert Palmer

I named my first album 'The Sound of Revenge' because I wanted to get revenge on everyone who doubted me. But when I finally got revenge, I didn't enjoy it.

Chamillionaire

I wear Sweet Revenge, the legging boots, a lot particularly in the winter.

Tamara Mellon

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Emil Cioran

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

Isaac Barrow

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

Ann Radcliffe

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

John Milton

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.

Ralph Marston

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