No one becomes guilty by fate. [ Seneca ]

Money answers everything,
Save a guilty conscience sting. [ Proverb ]

Guilty consciences make men cowards. [ Vanbrugh ]

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. [ Proverb ]

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. [ William Shakespeare ]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ 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 ]

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural.
The head may be thus guilty, not the heart. [ Rivarol ]

A guilty conscience never thinks itself safe. [ Proverb ]

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

When peace and mercy, vanished from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again,
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind;
But Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. [ Thomas Campbell ]

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience. [ Channing ]

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

He is as guilty who holds the bag as he who puts in. [ French Proverb ]

Thank God, men that are greatly guilty are never wise. [ Burke ]

Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. [ Proverb ]

The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fortune. [ Proverb ]

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

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. [ Johnson ]

He confesses himself guilty who refuses to come to a trial. [ Proverb ]

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. [ Fuller ]

The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be guilty. [ Law Max ]

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

He who is never guilty of follies is not so wise as he imagines. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

By the verdict of his own breast no guilty man is ever acquitted. [ Juvenal ]

He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation. [ Proverb ]

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]

Whoever blushes is already guilty: true innocence is ashamed of nothing. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

He that hinders not a mischief when it is in his power, is guilty of it. [ Proverb ]

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. [ Burke ]

A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of. [ Lesage ]

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the evil that a man can be guilty of. [ Swift ]

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar. [ Bartol ]

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

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

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

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

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. [ Madame Swetchine ]

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. [ Tupper ]

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. [ Fuller ]

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 ]

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, I think the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. [ Addison ]

I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, I helped skin Bob. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

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 ]

A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty! [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. [ Claudius, Claudian ]

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]

Plead or Pleaded? He plead not guilty or He pleaded not guilty. Pleaded, not plead, constitutes the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb to plead. Hence, in the example quoted the correct word is pleaded. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]