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Guilty Quotes - Page 3

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

"At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

"The Player of Games" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 215), 1988.

One is often guilty by being too just.

"La Mort de Pompée". Book by Pierre Corneille, Photin, act I, scene I, 1642.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

"A Piece of the Action" by David Nicholson, www.washingtonpost.com. November 3, 1996.

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

Song: Guilty In Here, Album: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 2007

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

"The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book Two, Chapter "Time to Go! Time to Go!"), 1967.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.52

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

"Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". "Bon Appetit" interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.