Veronica Franco Quotes

Give me my sin again.

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

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Had the Sally never sailed, I should have been preserved from an Evil, which has given me the most uneasiness, and has left the greatest impression and stain upon my Conduct in life...

I am a big sinner.

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

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.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

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

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.