Ethics Quote by Oscar Wilde

“he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had…

— Oscar Wilde

“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.”

— Kevin Dutton

“And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.”

— St John Perse

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain…

— Robert Girardi

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.”

— Anonymous

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness, to enter…

— Colm Tóibín