Confessed Quotes

• We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forget
  • Guilt
  • Confessed

• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Charity
  • Forgive
  • Faithfulness

• The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Power
  • Fortune
  • Prudence

• I blush to think of her beholding my work," Verl confessed. So do we," Newel assured him.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Blush
  • My Work
  • Confessed

• Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Forget
  • Sorry
  • Ashamed

• You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Accuse
  • Confessed

• No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Trust
  • Evidence
  • Confessed

• If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Liberty
  • Creation
  • Confessed

• All the more reason, then, to wonder why I had confessed what was so much my own to strangers, people very different from me, who would therefore never be able to understand my reasons, and who surely, at that moment, were speaking ill of me. I couldn’t bear it, I couldn’t forgive myself, I felt I had been flushed out.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Forgive
  • Strangers

• Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Hearts
  • Confessed