Mark Twain Quotes

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Fear is the mother of morality.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

I was afraid if I didn’t do the right thing a lot of people would die

He that does evil hates the light.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

To have lied is to have suffered.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.