Guilty Quotations

I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Part of what I like about the best villains in TV and film is when you feel sorry for them, and that makes you feel even worse for feeling guilty about wanting them to succeed, in some way.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

If I have one special memory, it was when we recreated the trial of the Chicago Seven - and I'd known about it before - but this was a pivotal moment in my life. If my father had been found guilty of conspiracy, I wouldn't be here.

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.

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

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

You shouldn't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give themselves a big ol' bear hug and treat themselves to some TLC.

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

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

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

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

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around, not shower, hardly even eat, and just watch TV.

We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn't. I'm guilty of this as well - having preconceptions about other artists - but it's stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head.

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!

Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

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

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

One is often guilty by being too just.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

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

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view.

We believe that someone should be considered guilty at the end of the process.