| 62 Guilt Quotes
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“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
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“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway”
Isabelle Holland Quotes |
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“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”
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“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
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“The guilty think all talk is of themselves”
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“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
Coco Chanel Quotes |
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“Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.”
Andrew Sandlin Quotes |
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“Guilt is always jealous”
John Ray Quotes |
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“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”
Tryon Edwards Quotes |
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“However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.”
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“However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.”
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“Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non
pervererint.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (III, 8)
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“Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal
consideration should stand in the way of performing a public
duty.”
Ulysses Simpson Grant Quotes Source: indorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring
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“What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house
on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this
world rests.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: The House of Seven Gables--The Flight of Two Owls
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“How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Irene (act IV, sc, 8)
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“The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 5)
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“Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous
to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of
guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat
of his own conscience.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (XIII, 1)
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“Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
[Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio
plus facunda.]”
Titus Livy Quotes Source: Annales (XXVIII, 25)
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“Those who guilt stains it equals.
[Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (V, 290)
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“Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
[Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (VII, 263)
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“These false pretexts and varnished colours failing,
Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 901)
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“Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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“I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
[Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Captivi (III, 5, 24)
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“Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of
guilt.
[Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes Source: Mostellaria (act III, 1, 13)
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“How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Eloisa to Abelard (l. 230)
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