Gilbert Parker Quotes

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Sometimes I hid my family connections.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Guilt soon learns to lie.

It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away with a lot comedically. I had definitely missed not having a conscience.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.