Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Biden

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

Joan Collins

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

Susan Sontag

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Tori Amos

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

Ugo Betti

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Richelle Mead

Guilt was its own prison.

Richelle Mead

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

Veronica Roth

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,

Thomas Paine

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Susan Cheever

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Samuel Johnson

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Robert Southey

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

V. S. Pritchett

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Usain Bolt

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.

Simon Cowell

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Pierre Corneille

One is often guilty by being too just.

Pierre Corneille

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

Philip Massinger

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

Vin Diesel

I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

Russell Brand

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Veronica Roth

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Whittaker Chambers

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Saint Augustine

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Sandra Bernhard

For most of my relationships, I would have liaisons, and I would feel guilty.

Willard Gaylin

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

Voltaire

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

William C. Bryant

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

William Wilberforce

Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.

W. H. Auden

A poor American feels guilty at being poor, but less guilty than an American rentier who has inherited wealth but is doing nothingto increase it; what can the latter do but take to drink and psychoanalysis?

William Congreve

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

Roger Ebert

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

Rod Stewart

I carry lots of guilt.