Quotes About Consequences

This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Little liberties are great offenses.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

Mademoiselle, I beseech you, do not do what you are doing." "Leave dear Linnet alone, you mean!" "It is deeper than that. Do not open your heart to evil." Her lips fell apart; a look of bewilderment came into her eyes. Poirot went on gravely: "Because—if you do—evil will come…Yes, very surely evil will come…It will enter in and make its home within you, and after a little while it will no longer be possible to drive it out.

He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so - he died." "Because he was stupid?" "It is the sin that is never forgiven and always punished, madame.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

I never gossip - but after all, a tongue is given one to speak with, and I'm not deaf mute. That you most certainly are not. A tongue, Henet, may sometimes be a weapon. A tongue may cause a death - may cause more than one death. I hope your tongue, Henet, has not caused a death.