FastSaying

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

William Congreve

William Congreve

Guilt

Related Quotes

And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons.
— William Shakespeare
Guilt
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
— William Wordsworth
Guilt
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
— William Shakespeare
Guilt
But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh!
— William Shakespeare
Guilt
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
— William Shakespeare
guiltjealousy