A few years back, we heard from someone looking to verify that the line "Revenge is a dish best served cold" truly originates in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. What she was told was that the title character speaks the line and attributes it to "an old Klingon saying." Two years ago, we investigated (and dismissed) the notion that fictional people of the future were the first to put that thought into words. We then traced back the earliest close approximation of that concept to the late eighteenth century, when the French author of the fictional Dangerous Liasons opined "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid." (来源：英语杂志 http://www.EnglishCN.com)

Today we look at two other views of revenge. Charlotte Bronte wrote this recollection by her fictional Jane Eyre at age ten: "Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time: as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." And Martin Luther King Junior, in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, proclaimed "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."