Top 100 Quotes About Guilty
#1. Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.
Billy Graham
#2. At that moment, his angel whispers: 'You are only an instrument of the light. There is no reason to feel proud or to feel guilty, there are only reasons to fulfil your destiny.
Paulo Coelho
#3. I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Pleasure is pleasure, enjoy!
Annie Wood
#4. The act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.
William Landay
#5. Never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do
and deal with it
Kevin Brooks
#6. He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.
James Dashner
#7. Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.
Agatha Christie
#8. Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.
Caroline Kepnes
#9. Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.
Jean Francois Revel
#10. ( ... ) juries should ask not "Is he guilty?" but rather "Is he dangerous?
Julian Barnes
#12. I've seen workaholics who've destroyed people. They become obsessed. They send out terrible messages. They make people feel guilty if they don't show up on Saturday. What a stupid message. People should be giving that time to their families.
Jack Stack
#13. Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.
Soren Kierkegaard
#14. Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Mignon McLaughlin
#15. The piano was just now telling me how it feels so odd when it rains. The rain can cause you to suddently feel guilty for all the tiny crimes you have committed, like not telling your friend that you love her.
Heather O'Neill
#16. If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#17. The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
LaToya Jackson
#18. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
Baal Shem Tov
#19. I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.
Donald Sterling
#20. He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only ...
Hannah More
#21. Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.
Andrew Vachss
#22. I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
Simon Armitage
#23. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell
#25. Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.
Jonathan Carroll
#26. I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
Daniel Defoe
#27. Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
William Hague
#28. I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.
Mia Maestro
#29. Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
John Dryden
#30. We have judged God and found Him guilty of those things we do not understand.
James B. Richards
#31. Foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.
Julie Garwood
#32. Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
Edward Young
#33. A pastor who counsels an abuse victim to:
- Submit to her husband
- Pray harder, or
- Be a better wife
can't help her. She should not feel guilty about looking elsewhere for help.
Caroline Abbott
#34. Ha, no, that it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.
David Lagercrantz
#35. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
Beryl Markham
#36. Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
Eric Hoffer
#37. Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion
#38. Cheese, in any form, is my guilty pleasure. I would rather have a cheese platter for dinner than any meal. There's nothing better!
Christine Taylor
#40. But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak
Franz Kafka
#41. I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
Jack Kerouac
#42. You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.
Ray Lewis
#43. There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don't like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault.
Anne Perry
#44. A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty,
'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't
feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own,
outside of husband and children.
Betty Friedan
#46. Desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.
Alberto Moravia
#47. Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things - work for them and don't ever stop until they're yours.
Jennifer Elisabeth
#48. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Adam Smith
#49. In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.
Jock Sturges
#50. The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius
#51. It's the same guilty game I've been playing all along, to be near Caleb, regardless of the circumstance or cost.
Tarryn Fisher
#52. It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity.
Edan Lepucki
#53. Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
Khalil Gibran
#54. Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
Hunter S. Thompson
#55. If 13 is unlucky, then 12 and 14 are guilty by association.
Mitch Hedberg
#56. Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.
Chris Colfer
#57. I know why you did. That's what I want for you...to have the things you deserve. I want you to have that, and not feel guilty about how you got it. You told me the truth. You don't have to give me poetry to ease the blow.
Alexandra Bracken
#58. Most people would feel guilty for destroying someone else's property. Yet they wreck the very temple their Creator gifted them.
Brendon Burchard
#59. I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music
notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
Jennifer Donnelly
#60. I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.
Michael Jackson
#61. There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
Samuel Beckett
#62. There was nothing inherently guilty about the moment except that Gansey burned with guilt and thrill and desire and the nebulous feeling of being truly known. It was on the inside of him, and the inside was all Noah ever really paid attention to.
Maggie Stiefvater
#63. Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
Julie Otsuka
#64. If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#65. You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended.
C.S. Lewis
#67. Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.
Bill Rodgers
#68. The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
George Allen
#69. I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.
Wesley Snipes
#70. Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.
Mizuho Kusanagi
#71. If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
Sitting Bull
#72. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.
Anne Perry
#73. You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
Tony Kushner
#74. Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying.
Dorothy Dunnett
#75. I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
F. Lee Bailey
#76. The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#77. Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."
"Not guilty."
"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."
"But it beats extradition.
Howard Tayler
#78. Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.
Phil Klay
#79. It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
Ben Aaronovitch
#80. I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.
Isaac Parker
#81. I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.
John Krasinski
#82. I don't know how to feel about those deaths. Guilty, maybe, for not seeing the pain myself. Sad, that some people can't find another way to escape.
Veronica Roth
#83. I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson
#84. They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have mentioned, what fear could they possibly have from a old man with dimming eyesight, arthritis, diabetes, and other health issues that render me hardly a threat to anyone.
Leonard Peltier
#85. I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself
as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.
Joseph Addison
#86. That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.
Nelson Algren
#87. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-Ucci
#88. If I am guilty," said the Earl, "may this bread choke me when I eat it!
Jerome K. Jerome
#89. When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
Dada Bhagwan
#90. I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#91. It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#92. Feeling guilty for making traffic stop at the lights when you need to cross the road.
Rob Temple
#93. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
Virginia Woolf
#94. An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
DMX
#95. I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#96. I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A.R. Rahman
#97. We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#98. [Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.
Agatha Christie
#99. A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
Clarence Darrow
#100. I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
Gary Johnson
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