"Revenge is a dish best served cold"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

> > This is said to be from Pierre Ambroise François
> > Choderlos de Laclos, _Les
> > Liaisons Dangereuses_ (1782): "La vengeance est un
> > plat qui se mange froid".

>I did a search through Les
>Liaisons Dangereuses for the words "revanche",
>"vengeance", "plat", "mange", and "froid" but could
>find nothing even remotely resembling this phrase.

I looked too: nothing. Another error, I guess, which isn't that unusual on
the Web. Possibly the 'proverb' was employed in a stage or movie version or
whatever, much later.

-- Doug Wilson