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Quotes About Deserved

Sometimes there are films like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' which turned out better than it deserved to be, but in the case of 'Edge of Tomorrow,' there was just such enthusiasm from fans.
~ Doug Liman
I do not think we can ever be despised as much as we deserve.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
~ William Shakespeare
birth it had been! Martha thought her mistress deserved a moment of triumph before further worries beset her, but Her Grace spotted the baby's clublike
~ Brenda Novak
Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.
~ Graham Linehan
Not all who betray feel guilt and remorse. They often proclaim the betrayed deserved the punishment for past actions. A rationalization intended to ensnare the ignorant and offer warrant. Remember. The betrayer was either attempting to gain something for themselves, or to inflict pain upon you; or both.
~ Gandolfo - (RJ Intindola)
That none deserve eternal bliss I know: Unmerited the grace in mercy given, But none shall sink to everlasting woe That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.
~ bronte anne iii
Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.
~ Redd Foxx
Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.
~ Mike Wallace
the question of what is deserved should rarely, if ever, be asked. Asking it leads to deadly judgement, and acts of unmitigated evil. Atrocity revisited in the name of justice breeds its own atrocity
~ Steven Erikson
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
~ Gene Wolfe
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.
~ Joseph Farrell
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
~ W. H. Auden
He will give the devil his due.
~ William Shakespeare
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
~ Campbell Brown
We all understand that there are consequences for poor behavior. But since we don't act out, we've never earned them. What I did was wrong, therefore I deserved the pain that followed, even if I didn't like it. My opinion on the subject is irrelevant.
~ Suzanne Young
In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
When men seek only to be trampled upon, it were a pity to deny them a favor so easily granted - and so well deserved!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime;
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mao, she said, deserved praise for 'doing more good than harm'.
~ Tom Bower
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
~ Tacitus
He understood how life was an undeserved bounty, how even the most virtuous were not worthy of the glories of the mortal plane.
~ Ted Chiang
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
~ Frank A. Clark
A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.
~ John Galt