Guilty Quotes

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.