Guilty Quotes - Page 22

• God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

  Horace

  Innocent

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• He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Ungrateful, Veils

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• He who blushes is already guilty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wall, Writing, World

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• This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Greatness, Men, He Man

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.42

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• Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hate, Real, Writing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Dog, Dirty, People

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• 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

  Hands, Suffering, Criminals

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

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• That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Pay, Conversation

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• He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Crime, Produce

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.26

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• And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Letters, Enormous

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• For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
  [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.]

  Juvenal

  Deeds, Crime

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• Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

  Juvenal

  Punishment, Evil, Guilt

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Satires, XIII, line 1, 1922.

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• The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

  Juvenal

  Thunder, Pale, Turns

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• 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

  Strong, Believe, Independent

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

  William Cowper

  Forgiveness, Blessing, Enemy

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

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• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
  Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
  T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
  Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  William Cowper

  Color, Skins, Slavery

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple”, p.198

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

  Ben Jonson

  Drinking, Men, Cups

  1616 Epigrams,'On Inviting a Friend to Supper'.

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• Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

  Henry Fielding

  Breasts, Behalf, Transgression

  Henry Fielding (2015). “History of Tom Jones: the History Focus”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Names, Gambling

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.125

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• Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Feelings

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.70, Bantam

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• If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.

  Francis Quarles

  Home, Heart, Enemy

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76

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• continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

  Germaine Greer

  Sex, Years, Perfect

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• Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Hands, Strict

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.46

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• Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Wisdom, Art

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