top of page
"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Consequence quotes

"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."

"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."

"The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications."

"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."
Explore more quotes by William Ralph Inge

"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."

"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted."

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
bottom of page