Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

You can't do people wrong. You can't do people dirty or put people's life in jeopardy and expect to walk away freely and just continue to live this happy and prosperous life. That's not how the universe and the way of life works.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

If religion is a reaction of man, and nothing more, it seems to me that it represents a human desire for wrongdoers to be punished. I hate the idea of Idi Amin living in Saudi Arabia for the last 25 years of his life. That galls me to no end. I feel some sort of need for biblical atonement, or justice, or something. I like to believe there is some comeuppance, that karma kicks in at some point, even if it takes years or decades to happen. My girlfriend says this great thing that’s become my philosophy as well. 'I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.'

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.