William Shakespeare Quotes

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

I couldn't go off and leave Stephen. Coals of fire would have been heaped on my head if I had.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

You cannot live with guilt.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.