Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice McDermott

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

Albert Camus

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

Albert Camus

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Douglas Wilson

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Deepak Chopra

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Anais Nin

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Damien Rice

They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

e. e. cummings

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

Anne Spencer

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Rice

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Andrew Fastow

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Ambrose Bierce

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Ambrose Bierce

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.

Ambrose Bierce

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Amy Tan

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

James Norton

If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.

We're not conceding anything. We haven't pled guilty to anything.

William Kennedy

My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.

Atul Gawande

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Ben Jonson

Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Elin Hilderbrand

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Six have pled guilty already. There's two left to go through.

She knew what she did was wrong that night, ... The problem is, it's not a joke. It's a crime. She's guilty as charged.

Most of the time there is testing, it confirms the guilt of the defendant,

Maybe you've got to hate her from the evidence. Maybe you want to somehow find her guilty of this offense. ... The only way for the system to work is for the jury to do the right thing and look at the evidence.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Jim Talent

There are people walking around guilty of murder.

If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

Then he called upon his Lord: These are a guilty people.