No Good Deed Goes Unpunished/Quotes

Dear diary. On Friday I had a job, a fiancee, a home, and a life that made sense. Then I found an injured girl bleeding on the pavement, and I tried to be a Good Samaritan. Now I've got no fiancee, no home, no job, and I'm walking around a couple of hundred feet under the streets of London with the projected life expectancy of a suicidal fruit fly.

—Richard Mayhew, Neverwhere

He (James Grayson) was seen as a hero by many, but desertion in a time of war was a capitol offense. And the law would make no exceptions.

—Colonel Parker. Resistance Retribution

"Nobody's going to tell you nothing. They're wise to your act. You got rules. The Joker, he's got no rules. Nobody's going to cross him for you."

—Sal Maroni, The Dark Knight Saga

"I don't get it. I finally did a job where I wasn't lazy, stupid or corrupt. And now I'm gonna get killed for it!"

—Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

"There's an old saying that "no good deed goes unpunished". Well, we thought we did a whole lot of good that time we eliminated the Shredder. And... that... other time we eliminated the Shredder. And... the time after that. Am I forgetting one? The point is: now, with Shredder out of the picture, the Mob, the Foot and the Purple Dragons are all duking it out for control of his empire. So, instead of making things better, we actually made them worse. No one felt more responsible than my brother Leo. And no one felt less responsible than my brother Raph. Still, we had to do something. So, we tracked down the reminiscent of the Foot's rundown flophouse. We were about to take them down when this big, honking robot shows up and starts shooting up the whole place! So much for our good deed."

—Michelangelo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003, "City at War (2)"