The Guilty Quotes

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

My favorite thing is always wings. That is my guilty pleasure.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

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.

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

I never feel guilty about liking music.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.