Quotes about guilt

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

— Simone De Beauvoir

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

— David Crosby

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

— Dr. Albert Ellis

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

— Charles James Fox

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

— Thomas Jefferson

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

— Rush Limbaugh

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

— Ovid

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.

— Nicholas Rowe

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

— John Ruskin

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

— William Shakespeare

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

— Bishop Robert South

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

— Anthony de Mello