The Guilty Quotes

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

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

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.