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Quotes About Guilt

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
~ Ian McShane
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
~ John Steinbeck
You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.
~ Moms Mabley
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
~ Sarah Wayne Callies
Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.
~ Zulay Henao
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
~ Laozi
I have a massive guilt thing about money.
~ Chris Lilley
When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.
~ Suze Orman
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
~ Lizzie Borden
Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
~ Franz Kafka
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
~ Vivien Leigh
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~ Carolyn Wells
Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
~ Gal Gadot
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
~ Philip Sidney
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
~ Jean Racine
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
~ Joan Rivers
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
~ Lorna Luft