Lord Byron Quotes

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just leads me to do what I feel is right and to conduct myself with the moral standards, principles, and integrity that were instilled in me by my family.

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.