Quotes About Punishment

And for my part I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses—the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. We grieve at being found out and at the idea of shame or punishment, but the mere sense of wrong makes very few people unhappy in Vanity Fair.

With this purpose, the author chose for the subject of his story a woman named Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726, for the deliberate murder of her husband, under very revolting circumstances. Mr. Thackeray's aim obviously was to describe the career of this wretched woman and her associates with such fidelity to truth as to exhibit the danger and folly of investing such persons with heroic and romantic qualities.

The game, in fact, and the glory, such as it is, is all his, and the punishment alone falls upon her. Consider this, ladies, when charming young gentlemen come to woo you with soft speeches. You have nothing to win, except wretchedness, and scorn, and desertion. Consider this, and be thankful to your Solomons for telling it.

A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

By that sin fell the angels.

For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.

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

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

The pleasing punishment that women bare....

upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee.

A man is never undone till he be hang'd.

Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged

Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.

And the next time you want to whip somebody, take him out in the swamps, kick the shit out of him, and stuff what's left up under a cypress tree.

Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks.

I think it is desirable that persons concerned with the administration of justice should carefully acquaint themselves with the nature and character of any punishments which they may be authorised to order.

I must speak of Germany. Indescribable crimes have been committed by Germany under the Nazi rule. Justice must take its course, the guilty must be punished, but once that is over—and I trust it will soon be over—I fall back on the declaration of Edmund Burke, 'I cannot frame an indictment against an entire people.

Justo castigo Me pregunté qué medio elegiría exactamente el Destino para cobrarse su inevitable tributo. ¿Me quedaría ciego? ¿O acabaría parapléjico? ¿Qué horrible prenda tendría Harold Cohen para pagar, para que el cosmos pudiese proseguir su armoniosa trayectoria? Pero todo eso vendría más adelante.

Justo castigo Un maleficio, eso es. Cuando dos personas se aman y tienen que separarse por culpa de una aberración casi cómica, ¿qué otra cosa puede ser?

Justo castigo -¡Dios mío, las cosas que me pasan!

Aunque sigue siendo discutible que la pena de muerte sirva como disuasorio, los estudios demuestran que la probabilidad de que los criminales reincidan se reduce casi a la mitad después de la ejecución.

Sabe que una injusticia descarada duele más que un castigo merecido.

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.