Conscience Quote by Oscar Wilde

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. 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

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

— William Shakespeare

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

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

— Khalil Gibran

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

— Jim Carroll

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

— Robert Ludlum

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

— James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

— Thomas Adams

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

— Jean Norvy