Quotes about Consequences

We forge the chains we wear in life.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Chapter Ten The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it; but Good, never.

But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder—I know I should—if we'd caught one of them rascals.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.