Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed
Cicero
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast , Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Samuel Johnson
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
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
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
Lucanus
These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
John Milton
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
Ovid
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
Alexander Pope
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Seneca
But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh!
William Shakespeare
A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Syrus
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Syrus
A land of levity is a land of guilt.
Edward Young