Caught Quote by Juvenal

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as…

— Michael Grant

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored…

— Harper Lee

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be…

— John Jakes

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel…

— Erica Jong

“Those who calumniate the unaware but honorable believing women are cursed in the present life and the Hereafter. And for them is a grievous…

— The Qur'an An-Nur (23): verse 24

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught…

— Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a…

— Honore De Balzac

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This…

— Honore de Balzac

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

— Juvenal

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing…

— John Newton