Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Frisch

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Matthew Henry

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Maxim Gorky

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Plautus

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

John Suckling

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Penelope Leach

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Paulo Coelho

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

Marianne Moore

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Horace

The man of upright life, unstained by guilt

Miranda Lambert

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

Miranda Kerr

I treat myself occasionally and don't have any guilt or conditions placed on it.

Joan Collins

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

Jimmy Buffett

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Elizabeth Gilbert

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

Joel Osteen

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

Joe Biden

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

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.

Malcolm Lowry

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

Maimonides

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Henri Rousseau

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Henry Fielding

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

Kyra Sedgwick

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

John Dryden

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

Pierre Corneille

One is often guilty by being too just.

Pierre Corneille

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

Philip Massinger

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

Rachael Ray

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

Peter McWilliams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Terry Goodkind

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Terry Goodkind

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan