"Guilt soon learns to lie." — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

"Guilt soon learns to lie."

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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11 Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle,…
Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest…
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler…
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and…
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself,…

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More Guilt Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. — Saint Augustine
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and… — Peter Ackroyd
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm… — Amy Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but… — Simone de Beauvoir
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. — Erma Bombeck
I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star. — Bono
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must… — Omar N. Bradley

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