Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

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.

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.

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

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

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

I did some bad stuff. I don't remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone's got gifts and I can't find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn't' bring me anything because I wasn't good.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

To have lied is to have suffered.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.