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The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. - Sir Walter Scott Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven! - Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto V, st. 22) Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Oetoeus (886) The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Thyestes (CCCXXX) A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. - William Shakespeare All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. - William Shakespeare Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. - William Shakespeare I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. - William Shakespeare O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again. - William Shakespeare The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. - William Shakespeare The mind of guilt is full of scorpions. - William Shakespeare They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame. - William Shakespeare And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i) 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, Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at IV, i) When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face. - Thomas Southerne (Southern) One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. - Robert Southey They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred. - Robert Southey Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! - Sir John Suckling It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) A guilty conscience never feels secure. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. - John Webster, The White Devil; or, Vittoria Corombona (act V, sc. 6) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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