536 Quotes About Punishment

There's always enough retribution to be dealt.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than rewarded for betrayal

Holmes slept like a baby his last night on earth. After a second attempt to wake him, Holmes got up and dressed. Keeper John Henry asked Holmes how he felt. “Are you nervous?” said Keeper Henry. “Not a bit,” said Holmes. He smiled and slid his arms between the prison bars and stretched out his fingers. “Look at that,” said Holmes. His hands were steady as a rock.

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.