Maureen Johnson Quotes

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty.

I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.

'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

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.