Ugo Betti Quotes

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

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

You know what, life is full of temptations.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

The better day, the worse deed.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!