Details are given further below.Ĭourtier Walter Map wrote “De Nugis Curialium” (“Courtiers’ Trifles”) in the 12th century. Also, the saying was implausibly assigned in 1972 to Oscar Wilde who had died in 1900. Quote Investigator: Clare Boothe Luce did receive credit for the saying by 1949, but the attribution was weak because the phrase had been circulating for multiple years before that date. Would you please explore the provenance of this saying? These words are often attributed to playwright and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce and to the famous wit Oscar Wilde.
Every good deed brings its own punishment.Therefore no good deed is unrewarded, and so every good deed merits some good.Ī comically acerbic statement transforms this perspective. Now no evil deed is unpunished, by God the just judge. XXXIII), Chapter XIV: Of the … Continue readingįor as punishment is to the evil act, so is reward to a good act. Here is an example from the “Summa Theologica” by Saint Thomas Aquinas who lived during the 13th century: 1917, The “Summa Theologica” of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Third Part, Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Fourth Number (QQ LXXXIV-Suppl. Clare Boothe Luce? Oscar Wilde? Walter Map? Marie Belloc Lowndes? James Agate? Leo Pavia? Walter Winchell? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: For centuries moral philosophers have propounded a conventional viewpoint about the rewards and punishments delivered by a deity.
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