Guilt Quotes
Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, The avenging fiend, that follows us behind With whips and stings.
Nicholas Rowe
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
Plautus
Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
Titus Livy
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.
Juvenal
Guilt is a poor, helpless, dependent being. Without the alliance of able, diligent, and let me add, fortunate fraud, it is inevitably undone. If the guilty culprit be obstinately silent, it forms a deadly presumption against him; if he speaks, talking tends only to his discovery, and his very defence often furnishes the materials for his conviction.
Junius
Guilt's a terrible thing.
Ben Jonson
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.
Samuel Johnson
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.
John Dryden
He swears, but he, is sick at heart; He laughs, but he turns deadly pale; His restless eye and sudden start-- These tell the dreadful tale That will be told: it needs no words from thee Thou self-sold slave to guilt and misery.
Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it.
William Congreve
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
Cicero
