Guilty Quotes - Page 23

• Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Men, Sin

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.12

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• Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

  Doris Lessing

  Class, Expression, Charity

  Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing (1977). “A proper marriage”

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• I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!

  Bette Davis

  Husband, Party, Four

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• Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

  Joan Collins

  Guilt, Three, Pleasure

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• Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Brave, Age

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• He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

  Hannah More

  Taken, Sin, Drink

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.287

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• In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

  Betty MacDonald

  Country, Sunday, Feels

  BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

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

  Julia Ward Howe

  Lying, Men, Soul

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.

  Betty Rollin

  Mother, Giving, Different

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• Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Trying, Authenticity, I Am What I Am

  Elizabeth Janeway (1953). “Leaving Home”, p.254, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

  Fay Weldon

  Husband, Wife, Infidelity

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.128, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Guilt

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.440, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

  Catherine the Great

  Giving, Citizens, Innocent

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• Look at it this way: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government's secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens... Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It's a digital stop-and-frisk.

  Charles M. Blow

  Government, Nsa, People

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• We have to decide whether our fear is going to get the better of us. Once upon a time we had a standard in our country that was 'innocent until proven guilty.' We've given up on so much. Now, people are talking about a standard that is 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.' Think about it. Is that the standard we're willing to live under?

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Talking

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from May 22, 2015

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• None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

  Hosea Ballou

  Pain, Repentance, Knows

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• Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

  Hortense Calisher

  Science, Alarms, Sociology

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• What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

  Louise Bogan

  Missing, Suffering, Done

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

  Jessica Mitford

  Ambition, Firsts, Chicago

  JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”

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• the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

  Jessica Mitford

  Writing, Trying, May

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• I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.

  Grace Helbig

  Real, Tv Shows, Taste

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• Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

  Aberjhani

  Trayvon Martin, Has Beens, Seems

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• My guilty pleasure is elastic-waisted pants. And reruns of shows Ive already seen 400 times on TV.

  Ross Mathews

  Reruns, Pants, Tvs

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• I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Cancer, Love Life, Thinking

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• If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

  Henry Cloud

  People, Giving, Feel Good

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2008). “Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No”, p.275, Zondervan

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