"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency……" — Oscar Wilde
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
More Confession Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead
- As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As… — Saint Basil
- The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
- It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed… — Josh Billings
- Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due… — William J. Brennan
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
- I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good… — Giacomo Casanova
- To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne