Confess Quotes
490 Confess quotes by 401 unique authors
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Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had…
— Anne Fadiman
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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be…
— Bell Hooks
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That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser
— Diana Gabaldon
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If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom,…
— Glen Cook
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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I…
— Jane Austen
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I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
— Lisa Kleypas
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical…
— Aberjhani
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On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
— Thomas Harris
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We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others…
— Ernest Becker
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In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would…
— C.S. Lewis
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The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want —” “— to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.
— Ellen Schreiber
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I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
— Albert Camus
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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends…
— Maya Angelou
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I must confess. Of all of the brotherhood, he was the one I loved first and he remains the one I love the most. For…
— J R Ward
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here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing…
— Daphne du Maurier
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One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned,…
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?
— Anne Rice
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I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.
— Charles Dickens
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Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Confess Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 490 Confess Quotes, led by these top contributors: