Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Spencer

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Rice

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Andrew Fastow

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Ambrose Bierce

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Ambrose Bierce

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Ambrose Bierce

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Anthony Hopkins

Guilt is the thief of life.

Alice McDermott

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Douglas Wilson

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Deepak Chopra

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Amy Tan

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

We're positive he was going to be not guilty because we know our family.

Michael Grimm

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

When they read the first part (of the verdict), I just bawled. I was so happy. The guilty verdict means so much to me.

Carl Jung

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

He was factually guilty of intentional homicide, but from the beginning, he's had remorse.

He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

James Norton

If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

Donna Karan

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

William Shakespeare

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

William Shakespeare

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Saddam Hussein

I said what I said, I am not guilty and I am innocent.

Gary Williams

Travis was suspended because he was where he shouldn't have been, but you're innocent until proven guilty in this country.

Padgett Powell

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

Scott Jones

You can find him guilty on Monday and not guilty on Tuesday.

John Denham

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

John Calvin

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

Georg Trakl

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Jose Saramago

Age carries with it a double load of guilt