John Webster Quotes

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

When you do something bad, you can't sleep.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

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

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

I carry lots of guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.