Guilty Quotes
1092 quotes by 889 authors
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So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire.…
— Dorothy Day
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The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be…
— Wendell Berry
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I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to…
— Ester Dean
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I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to…
— Charlotte Rampling
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Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were…
— Neal Stephenson
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca the Younger
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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.
— George Eliot
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It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
— Publilius Syrus
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A guilty conscience never feels secure.
— Publilius Syrus
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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures,…
— Eric Hoffer
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ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty,…
— Gloria Steinem
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A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
— Samuel Johnson
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My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
— John Dryden
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,…
— John Dryden
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For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
— Juvenal
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Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender
— Juvenal
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,…
— William Cowper
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The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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