Quotes About Consequences

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?

One second after an EMP attack, it will be too late to ask two simple questions: what should we have done to prevent the attack and why didn't we do it?

I have reached the conclusion he lacks that moral authority, and sadly, by extension, I must include in that now those who appointed him to his post. They are not lawful orders, and most certainly they are not moral orders.

We did have a lot to do with it. We had all grown so fat, so complacent, and we always let someone else worry about such things, even though we knew that those we allowed to be in charge were far too often incompetent—or worse, self-serving and blind in their arrogance.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

All causes shall give way: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

Blood will have blood.

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.

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

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.

It will have blood they say - blood will have blood.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!

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

Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. So, prithee, go with me.