cross-revenge

Updated: August 3, 2026

"'I began, he said, 'by expounding to 'em all the doctrine of cross-revenge, or vendetta trasversa, as they call it; and this I did for two reasons the first because in an argument there's naught so persuasive as telling a man something he knows already the second because it proved to them, and to me, that I wasn't drunk. For the doctrine has more twists in it than a conger.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sir John Constantine : Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756