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Honour is purchas’d by the deedes wee do.
Believe me Hero, honour is not won,
Until some honourable deed be done. Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander
I don’t believe that anybody has done terrible deeds in the name of atheism. Why would they? What would be the point? ... Neither of them were representing atheism. Atheism is not responsible for anything that they do. Religion was responsible for what the Spanish Inquisition did. Richard Dawkins, interview Have Your Say
Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors III ii 20
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Make ill deeds done! William Shakespeare, King John IV ii 219
My deeds upon my head! I crave the law. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice IV i 206
How far that little candle throws his beams –
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ibid. V i 90-91, Portia to Nerissa
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I ii 256
A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother. ibid. III iv 28
An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds. William Shakespeare, Othello V ii 155-156, Othello
And your large speeches may your deeds approve,
That good effects may spring from words of love. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I i 174-175, Kent
The attempt and not the deed,
Confounds us. William Shakespeare, Macbeth II ii 10 &11
I have done the deed. ibid. II ii 14, Macbeth
A little water clears us of this deed. ibid.
To know my deed ’twere best not know myself. ibid. II ii 71, Macbeth
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 94
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. Vincent van Gogh
No good deed goes unpunished. The Sopranos s6e1: Members Only starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, builder to Carmela
Rule of Acquisition #285: no good deed ever goes unpunished. Star Trek s2e24: Deep Space Nine: The Collaborator, Quark
I should have remembered the 285th Rule of Acquisition: no good deed ever goes unpunished. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e25: The Sound of Her Voice, Quark to Jake
Love is shown in your deeds not in your words. Father Jerome Cummings
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Buddha, attributed
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. Buddha, attributed
Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu
Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. Albert Einstein
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitute a man’s critical actions, it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character. George Eliot, Adam Bede
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot, Middlemarch motto
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T S Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, 1935
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The deed is all, the glory nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & novelist, Faust
Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. Genesis 20:9, Abimelech to Abraham
Men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19
We are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. Rosa Parks
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. Sophocles
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task. Sophocles
Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment. Muhammad
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch
The end result of wisdom is ... good deeds. The Talmud
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. Jesse Jackson, ‘Jesse Jackson: The Man, The Movement, The Myth’
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. Blaise Pascal
Patience is a nobler motion than any deed. C A Bartol, Radical Problems, 1872
The result justified the deed. Ovid
For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. Percy Bysshe Shelley
As Mrs Pankhurst says, it’s deeds not words that will get us the vote. Suffragette 2015 starring Helena Bonham Carter & Carey Mulligan & Meryl Streeo & Natalie Press & Annie-Marie Duff & Romola Garai & Ben Whisaw & Brendon Gleeson & Samuel West & Adrian Schiller et al, director Sarah Gavron
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Socrates