Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. — Joseph Addison
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to… — Joseph Addison
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will… — John Henry Newman
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. — Elbert Hubbard
Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty. — Cathy Ladman
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. — Ambrose Bierce
Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. — Ambrose Bierce
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim. — Albert Camus
Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early… — Rajneesh
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. — Holly Near
The guilt of newborns is immense. — Georg Trakl
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a… — Tom Selleck
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's… — James Dickey
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I… — Janet Reno
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. — Thomas Francis Meagher
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not… — Pope Benedict XVI
After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca. — Shauna Singh Baldwin
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent;… — Baal Shem Tov
We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. — William Shakespeare
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. — William Shakespeare
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public… — Ulysses S. Grant
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… — John Denham
But I don't believe in guilt by association. — Marion Jones

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