Quotes About Comeuppance

Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.

I needed information. I broke laws to get it. One could easily rationalize what I had done. The case for obtaining that information while giving Edward a touch of comeuppance was certainly compelling. But

The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible.

It seemed comeuppance would slam down like the steel grille of a discount electronics store

On another level I'd unfortunately read the books. I knew Barristan had a different story in the books and I was hoping for a bit more of Barristan alive before he met his comeuppance... well, comeuppance is unfair, he didn't deserve a comeuppance.

The sages taught the Jews not to rejoice over another's misfortune. "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth" (Proverbs 24:17). (I must confess that I have always enjoyed gloating over the comeuppance suffered by the detestable, regardless of race, color, or creed.)

So what's heaven like? I always imagined it as the equivalent of being pushed around on one of those dolphin strollers at Disney World when you're three. Or it's where you see every a**hole you ever dealt with in life get his comeuppance.

In fact, suggests Lewis, the entrance to the netherworld, where every evil will find its comeuppance, is locked from the inside, the damned souls having slammed shut every possible door that may lead the repentant sinner to God.

Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias but unmitigated class bias. The American mainstream media in its current free-fall is begging for more comeuppance when it continues to berate the values and lifestyles of the folks in flyover country who, in simpler times, used to be considered valued customers.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

There can be praise and exultation and even awe for the hero, as well as the vicarious pleasure of imagining oneself in the hero's role. It's interesting, though, that this seems to be a milder pleasure than comeuppance, perhaps because there isn't the same evolutionary need for us to scrutinize and praise and take delight in goodness as there is for us to focus on the bad.