Guilty Quotes - page 3

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged. (W. H. Auden)
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. View quote
Norman Mailer
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. View quote
Brian De Palma
Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing. View quote
Emil Cioran
The time has been in Israel under the law of God, the celestial law, or that which pertains to the celestial law, for it is one of the laws of that kingdom where our Father dwells, that if a man was found guilty of adultery, he must have his blood shed, and that is near at hand. But now I say, in the name of the Lord, that if this people will sin no more, but faithfully live their religion, their sins will be forgiven them without taking life. View quote
Brigham Young
She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. View quote
Anthony de Mello
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. View quote
Dolores Ibárruri
Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born at once one is guilty. (Hermann Hesse)
There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. View quote
William Cowper
If you commit a crime, you're guilty. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box. View quote
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone. View quote
F. Lee Bailey
I've resisted pronouncing a sentence before guilt is found. I will have this old-fashioned notion that even with people like Osama, who is very likely to be found guilty, we should do our best not to, in positions of executive power, not to prejudge jury trials. View quote
Howard Dean
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. View quote
Albert Camus
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. View quote
Publilius Syrus
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him. View quote
John Calvin
Between men and women, all the time there is tension. I feel it. A woman walks down the street, and I'm going back, and suddenly there is this tension. I just walk down the street, we were just on the way. And she thinks I'm a rapist. And now I feel guilty, even though I'm a damn poor did not. (Quentin Tarantino)
Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. View quote
Ray Bradbury
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. View quote
Malcolm X
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus