Consequence Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Although Henry’s death was obviously imminent, his own physicians were afraid to tell him he was dying because they could be arrested for treason…

— Sylvia Barbara Soberton

But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

— Robert Jordan

“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”

— Ouida

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

— Norm MacDonald

“I know. And we have no does--not one--and no does means no kittens and in a few years no warren." It may seem incredible…

— Richard Adams

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into…

— Samuel Johnson

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or…

— Samuel Johnson

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

— Samuel Johnson

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter…

— Michael Atherton

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the…

— Donald Barthelme

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the…

— Lupe Fiasco

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to…

— Fernando Pessoa