#Consequence Quotes

“And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.”

“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.”

“Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!”

“I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

“Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.There's nothing situate under heaven's eyeBut hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.”

“Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?”

“Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”

“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.”

“Our distrust is very expensive.”

“Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.”

“Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

“If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.”

“Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”

“There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“All surfeit is the father of much fast.”

“Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.”

“Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.”

“No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.”

“Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”

“This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.”

“If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.”

“If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.”

“Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”

“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”

“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.”

“He chooses the beginning of a road, also chooses its outcome.”

“Pride went before, ambition follows him.”

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

“Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.”

“That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.”

“There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.”

“If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.”

“Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.”

“We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct.”

“If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.”

“There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.”

“Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.”

“If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.”

“Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.”

“All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.”

“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”

“Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”

“Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.”

“Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.”