Talk:revenge is a dish best served cold

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
According to and  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)


 * Wikipedia doesn't cite a source, so I've rephrased that sentence not to take a stance, and added . (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  ) —Ruakh TALK 02:07, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

"Exact" phrasing
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)