"There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world."

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Source : Minette Walters (2011). “The Scold's Bridle”, p.71, Pan Macmillan

Minette Walters

#Revenge Quotes #Regret Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“In the '60s and '70s people were a little bit more naive and trusting and got in people's cars without thinking about it.”
“Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.”

Source : Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.311, MIT Press
“There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.”
“Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a doubting soul suddenly born into the kingdom of reason and free thought.”
“You could do a lot worse.”
“The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.”
“I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.”
“Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.”

Source : David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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