Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Conscience doth make cowards of us all. -- Shakespeare | |
A good scapegoat is hard to find. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. -- Carolyn Wells | |
Let your conscience be your guide. -- Pope | |
Forgetfulness, n.: A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. | |
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin. --Salvador De Madariaga | |
Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman. -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9 | |
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken | |
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -- H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy" | |
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. | |
Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you wish you weren't. | |
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -- Lillian Hellman | |
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. -- Oscar Wilde | |
Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it. |