100+ Guilty Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". "Bon Appetit" interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

topic: Dog, Hot, Guilty, Hot Dog

My guilty pleasure is One Direction.

- Jamie Redknapp

source: MassKickers Interview, www.masskickers.org.

topic: One Direction, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

topic: Innocence, Guilty, Ashamed

He who blushes is already guilty.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Guilty

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

- Jeff Lindsay

source: Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.143, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

topic: Soul, Unexpected, Guilty, Genuine Smiles

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

- Jesse Eisenberg

topic: Way, Guilty, Pleasure

In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

- Jock Sturges

topic: Believe, Facts, Guilty

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

- Jock Sturges

topic: Want, Guilty, Abandon, Naivete

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Guilty, Defeated, Ashamed, Unworthy, Very Depressed

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

topic: United States, Constitution, Guilty

... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

- John Horton Conway

topic: Math, Science, Guilty, Cambridge

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

- John Krasinski

topic: Thinking, People, Guilty

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

- John Mortimer

topic: Funny Marriage, Guilty, Parole

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Political, Guilty, Rhetoric, Political Rhetoric

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Men, Giving, Guilty

As a customer service representative; I deal with people all day. Some really are guilty of not paying their bill.

- Jon Jones

topic: People, Bills, Guilty

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

- Jon Krakauer

topic: Military, Guilty, Investigation

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

- Joseph Estrada

topic: Firsts, Constitution, Guilty, Not Guilty

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

- Joseph Fiorenza

topic: Doe, Death Penalty, Guilty, Heinous Crimes

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

- Juvenal

topic: Guilty, Thunder, Pale

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

- Kamala Harris

topic: Dna, People, Guilty

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

- Kate Atkinson

topic: Mother, Doubt, Guilty

My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

- Kate Fleetwood

topic: Reality, Tvs, Guilty, Guilty Pleasure, Nosey

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

- Kato Kaelin

topic: Believe, Heart, Guilty

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

- Keith Ablow

topic: Guilty, Truth Will Set You Free

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

- Kenesaw Mountain Landis

topic: Baseball, Peers, Guilty

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

- Kenneth Branagh

topic: Trying, Guilty, Carpet

Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.

- Kent Hovind

topic: Entering, Duress, Guilty

We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

- Lance Henriksen

topic: Wisdom, Eye, Guilty

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

- Leonard Peltier

source: Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Innocence, Guilty

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

- Lewis B. Smedes

topic: Shame, Guilty, Feels

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Writing, Cost, Guilty

I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.

- Linden Ashby

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

topic: Philadelphia, Laughing, Guilty, Sunny In Philadelphia, Guilty Pleasure

Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty

- Lionel

topic: Gentleman, Guilty, Innocent, Ladies And Gentlemen

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

- Lionel Shriver

topic: Secret, Guilty, Appearance

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

- Livy

topic: Men, Trials, Guilty

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

- Louis MacNeice

source: Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.177, Faber & Faber

topic: Culture, Guilty, Free Speech

I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison.

- Louise Hay

topic: Feelings, Prison, Guilty, Feeling Guilty

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

- Lyn Nofziger

topic: Believe, Guilty, Shows

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

- Madeline Kahn

source: "At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.

topic: Hard Work, Guilty, Easy, Being Funny

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Philosophical, Innocence, Guilty

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

topic: Men, Pay, Guilty, Impertinence

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

- Marian Keyes

topic: Mouths, Guilty, Feels

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Taste, Dessert, Guilty

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Wisdom, Evil, Guilty

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Guilt, Guilty, Wells, Resigned

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

- Matt Mullenweg

topic: Mistake, Catholic, Guilty

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

- Max Frisch

topic: Guilty, Conscience

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

- Max Lucado

topic: Guilty, Innocent, Thrive, Inspirational Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

- Mia Maestro

topic: Hobbies, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

- Michael Connelly

topic: Abuse, Next, Guilty

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

- Mikhail Bulgakov

topic: Dog, Vices, Guilty

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

- Miranda Lambert

source: Song: Guilty In Here, Album: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 2007

topic: Guilty

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

- Mitch Albom

topic: People, Guilty, Cursing

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

- Nadeem Aslam

source: Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.9, Faber & Faber

topic: People, Guilty, Innocent

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

- Nancy Grace

topic: People, Want, Guilty

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

- Neill F. Marriott

topic: Atonement, Guilty, Ashamed

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

- Nelson Algren

topic: Book, Guilty, Innocent

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

- Nick Frost

topic: Bored, Doing Nothing, Guilty

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Friendship, Protection, Guilty

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

- Nikki DeLoach

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.

- O. J. Simpson

source: Plea at murder trial, Los Angeles, Cal., 22 July 1994

topic: Sports, Guilty, Not Guilty

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

- O. J. Simpson

source: "A Piece of the Action" by David Nicholson, www.washingtonpost.com. November 3, 1996.

topic: Guilty, Hundred, Not Guilty

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

- Paula Radcliffe

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Feels

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Blessing, Guilty, Good Things, Lyricists, Deserving

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

- Pete McCarthy

source: Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.62, Macmillan

topic: Guilt, Kind, Guilty

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

- Peter MacKay

topic: Home, Guilty, Loved Ones, Time Away

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

- Peter Tosh

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

topic: Truth, Guilty, Found

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

- Philibert Joseph Roux

topic: Doors, Judging, Guilty, Verdict

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

- Piers Anthony

source: Piers Anthony (1989). “Bio of an Ogre: The Autobiography of Piers Anthony to Age 50”, Ace Books

topic: Glitter, Sometimes, Guilty, Clamour, False Accusation

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

- Piers Anthony

topic: Elements, Want, Guilty

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Guilt, Guilty, Innocent

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

- Puff Daddy

topic: Innocence, Guilty, Innocent

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

- Rachael Ray

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

- Rachel Bilson

topic: Hot, Guilty, Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

- Rae Foley

topic: Faces, Injustice, Guilty

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

topic: Opportunity, Play, Guilty, Equal Opportunity

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

- Richard von Weizsaecker

source: Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.59, Routledge

topic: Past, Guilty, Accepting

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

- Rick Warren

topic: Study, Guilty

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

- Rob James-Collier

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Sometimes, Guilty

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

- Robert Earl Keen

topic: Selfish, Time Management, Guilty, Precious Time

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

- Saddam Hussein

topic: Innocence, Guilty, Innocent, Not Guilty

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

topic: Thinking, Guilty

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

- Sándor Márai

topic: Divorce, Heartfelt, Guilty

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

topic: Judging, World, Guilty

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Rude, Vampire, Guilty, Being Rude

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

- Steve Lawson

topic: Rewards, Guilty, Salvation

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

- Sue Johanson

topic: Abnormal, Guilty, Ashamed, Normal And Abnormal

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

topic: Guilty, Feels, Continuing

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.

- Tarek Saab

topic: Shells, Sin, Guilty, Vacuous

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan

- Terry Goodkind

topic: Guilty, Innocent, Pity

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

- Terry McMillan

topic: Men, Thinking, Guilty

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Justice, Nannies, Guilty, Daft

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

- Thomas Francis Meagher

source: W F. Lyons, Thomas Francis Meagher (1871). “Brigadier-general Thomas Francis Meagher: his political and military career; with selections from his speeches and writings”, p.13

topic: Feelings, Resentment, Guilty, Countrymen

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

- Tom Brown, Jr.

topic: Complacency, Earth, Guilty

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

- Tom Hiddleston

topic: Guilty, Pleasure, Feels, Guilty Pleasure

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

- Tony Kushner

topic: Thinking, Giving, Guilty, Nihilist

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

- Valerie Trierweiler