Basil Quote by Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

— Oscar Wilde

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

— Evan Esar

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

— William Shakespeare

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

— William Shakespeare

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

— Henry David Thoreau

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

— Thomas Adams

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

— Immanuel Kant

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

— Jean Norvy

Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

— Khalil Gibran

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater