Rafael Sabatini Quotes

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

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

The man who does ill must suffer ill.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

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.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you