Guilty Quotes - Page 17

• Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

  Emperor Norton

  San Francisco, Twenties, Bay Area

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• I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

  Richard Ford

  Opportunity, Play, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Jean Anouilh

  Names, Ideas, Innocence

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Guilt, Wells, Unfortunate

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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

  Graham Kendrick

  Love, May, Pay

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• Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

  Terry Eagleton

  Writing, Past, Secret

  "Conquering history" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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

  Adam Sandler

  Sometimes, Feels

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• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  M. Ward

  Idols, Watches, Singers

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• I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game'.

  Shane Black

  Games, Watches, Film

  "Wright vs. Black". www.esquire.com. April 27, 2007.

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• I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!

  Alison Brie

  Girl, Dream, Dresses

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

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• This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Kids, Parent, Doe

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• My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

  Rachel Bilson

  Hot, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

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• I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Believe, Thinking, Innocent Person

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• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  Adam Gopnik

  Attitude, Party, Thinking

  "Adam Gopnik on Food, Baseball, and The New Yorker". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  Barbara Goldsmith

  Art, Dollars, Proof

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• There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

  Bernard Goldberg

  New York, Narcissism, Kind

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

  John Garamendi

  United States, Constitution, Innocent

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• I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Lucky, Actors, Juilliard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

  Lily Allen

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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

  Piers Anthony

  Elements, Want, Claims

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• Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

  Larry Wall

  Ugly, Derivatives, Computer

  Usenet article, 1992.

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• Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

  Lou Reed

  Perfect, Tears, Spirit

  Lou Reed, Lorenzo Mattotti (2012). “The Raven”, p.28, Fantagraphics Books

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• I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Loneliness, Sadness, Lust

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