Mark Twain Quotes

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt.

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I know what sin is.

I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I could answer that the way you want, but I'd hate myself in the morning.