Suspicion always haunts
the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
(1564 – 1616, English poet, playwright, and actor)
Where guilt is,
rage and courage both abound.
Ben Jonson
(1572 – 1637, English dramatist, poet and actor)
One is often guilty
by being too just.
Pierre Corneille
(1606 – 1684, French tragedian)
Innocence does not find
near so much protection
as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(1613 – 1680, French author of maxims and memoirs)
Every man is guilty
of all the good
he did not do.
Voltaire
(1694 – 1778, French writer, historian, and philosopher)
Guilt has very quick ears
to an accusation.
Henry Fielding
(1707 – 1754, English novelist and dramatist)
Whoever blushes
is already guilty;
true innocence
is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(1712 – 1778, Francophone Genevan philosopher,
writer, and composer)
writer, and composer)
It is better
that ten guilty escape
than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
(1723 – 1780, English jurist, judge and Tory politician)
Guilt is the very nerve
of sorrow.
Horace Bushnell
(1802 – 1876, American Congregational minister)
The innocence
that feels no risk
and is taught no caution,
is more vulnerable than guilt,
and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806 -1867, American author,
poet and editor)
poet and editor)