Quotes About Responsibility

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

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

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

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

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday...

You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably.

Justice is, after all, in the hands of men and men are fallible.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

These blondes, sir, they're responsible for a lot of trouble.

What are you doing this afternoon, Griselda?" "My duty," said Griselda. "My duty as the Vicaress. Tea and scandal at four thirty.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

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.

I can look after her all right, sir," said Tommy, at exactly the same minute as Tuppence said, "I can take care of myself.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.