Recompense Quotes

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.