Katie Featherston Quotes

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

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

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

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.

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

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

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

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

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

I know that in my public life I fell below the standards that I had set myself... I have seen what is wrong but not done enough to put it right. I have been more critical than correct.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.