Best I Confess Sayings
106 I Confess quotes by 93 unique authors
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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her…
— C.S. Lewis
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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me.…
— Emily Dickinson
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
— Ben Jonson
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I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
— Paul Auster
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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
— William Congreve
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The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
— Mick Jagger
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
— H. L. Mencken
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I confess, I do not believe in time.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced.…
— Barack Obama
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People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
— James A. Baldwin
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But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
— C.S. Lewis
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To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for…
— Charles Darwin
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I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the…
— Sonia Sanchez
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What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur…
— Susanna Clarke
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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
— Saint Augustine
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The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends…
— Augusten Burroughs
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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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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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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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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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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most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless,…
— Arthur Miller
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Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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