Guilt Quotes - Page 20

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

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

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.

The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.

Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.