"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Guilt, Tears, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Guilt, Blame, Trauma, Responsibility

"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

Jude Law, British Actor

Guilt, Jealousy, Regret

"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Guilt, Law, Justice, Trust

"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Guilt,

"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Guilt, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Guilt, Memory, Emotion, Truth

"Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Guilt, Justice, Life, Truth

"Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Guilt, Emotion, Weather, Pain

"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Guilt, Deception, Lie, Trust

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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."

"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."

"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."

"Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!"

"Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined."

"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

"Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."