Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Anais Nin

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

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.

Henry Fielding

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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.

Saddam Hussein

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

Simon Armitage

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

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

Bill Watterson

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

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.

Victoria Jackson

Especially actors are really guilty of that a lot; of using anything they can to be looked at for their career.

Horace

Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale

William Saroyan

Be the inferior of no man, nor of any be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

As to the decision, the verdict of the jury could not be more clear. The jury has said these men are not guilty on these counts.

We've been taught how to present a unified defense, so that the guilt phase ties in to the penalty phase.

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?

Albert Camus

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Albert Camus

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

William Shakespeare

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

William Shakespeare

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Monica Raymund

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

Juvenal

The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

Juvenal

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.