Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

—Erma Bombeck

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

 —Mignon McLaughlin

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

 —Anna Sewell

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

—Charles James Fox

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

 —Turkish proverb

It’s true that I’ve driven through a number of red lights. But on the other hand, I’ve stopped at a lot of green ones I’ve never gotten credit for.

 —Glenn Gould

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

—Cathy Guisewite

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

 —John Steinbeck

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

—Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

—Kimberly Johnson

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

—Doug Larson

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

—William Shakespeare

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

—Voltaire

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

—André Gide

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

—Thomas Paine