David Lloyd George Quotes

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.