Quotes of Guilt - somelinesforyou

“ I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. ”

- Angelina Jolie

“ A guilty conscience needs no accuser. ”

- Anonymous

“ Guilt is a rope that wears thin. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering. ”

- Julie A. M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

“ Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix) ”

- Juvenal

“ Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. ”

- Titus Maccius Plautus

“ Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. ”

- William Cowper

“ So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ”

- John Webster

“ If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ Guilt is anger directed at ourselves — at what we did or did not do. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ”

- Alexander Chase

“ 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

“ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ”

- John Milton

“ Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer. ”

- Dr. Albert Ellis

“ One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Guilt is a rope that wears thin. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong. ”

- Tyron Edwards

“ So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ”

- William Shakespeare
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