Guilt is always jealous. [ Proverb ]

Guilt soon learns to lie. [ Miss Braddon ]

Guilt's a terrible thing. [ Ben Jonson ]

Let the galled jade wince. [ William Shakespeare ]

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. [ Jane Porter ]

No one becomes guilty by fate. [ Seneca ]

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt [ Mme. Necker ]

O opportunity, thy guilt is great! [ William Shakespeare ]

The ghostly consciousness of wrong. [ Carlyle ]

Be sure your sin will find you out. [ Bible ]

A land of levity is a land of guilt. [ Young ]

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. [ John Dryden ]

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. [ John Webster ]

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. [ Dryden ]

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. [ Fielding ]

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [ Syrus ]

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt. [ Johnson ]

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. [ Milton ]

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. [ William Shakespeare ]

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly
When consternation turns the good man pale? [ Young ]

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend,
The avenging fiend that follows us behind
With whips and stings. [ Rowe ]

All fear, but fear of heaven, betrays a guilt,
And guilt is villainy. [ N. Lee ]

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [ Sewell ]

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks,
Already reddening in thy guilty cheeks. [ Byron ]

I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. [ William Shakespeare ]

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [ Plautus ]

How guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great! [ Dr. Johnson ]

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. [ Congreve ]

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor, - misery. [ Bryant ]

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. [ William Shakespeare ]

Glory built On selfish principles, is shame and guilt. [ Cowper ]

It is difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance. [ Ovid ]

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [ Seneca ]

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [ Tacitus ]

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! [ Ovid ]

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. [ William Shakespeare ]

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt. [ Dr. John ]

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. [ William Shakespeare ]

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]

And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [ Livy ]

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases. [ Schiller ]

If one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. [ Bible ]

Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. [ Ter ]

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. [ Cicero ]

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt. [ Schiller ]

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. [ George Sand ]

Alas! how difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt. [ Ovid ]

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. [ Creech ]

Reason if we do not live by it, will serve to increase our shame and guilt. [ Proverb ]

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt! [ Blair ]

They whose guilt within their bosoms lie imagine every eye beholds their blame. [ William Shakespeare ]

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]

The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. [ Havard ]

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? [ Publius Syrus ]

The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

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

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. [ Wordsworth ]

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. [ Young ]

Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. [ Cicero ]

When by a pardoned murderer blood is spilt, the judge that pardoned hath the greatest guilt. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself: for every guilty person is his own hangman. [ Seneca ]

Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]