Francis Quarles Quotes

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

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.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

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.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Evil gains work their punishment.

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

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.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

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

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Because of a few, disasters come upon a whole people, and because of the evil deeds of one, many have to taste their fruits.

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

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.

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