Top 393 Guilty Quotes

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don’t know where the next job is going to come from.
Joan Rivers
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone’s feelings, hypersensitive to other people’s needs – and it’s just paralysing.
James Murphy
My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I’d been playing for 18 years, and to give it up would make me feel guilty. But my parents also knew that realistically, I wasn’t going to become a concert pianist.
Lulu Wang
We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about

We live in a time where we’re made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn’t apologize for it.
Jim Davis
I have always enjoyed myself. Sometimes I feel guilty about enjoying myself so much.
Milind Soman
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
I’ve dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don’t want to be guilty of telling old jokes.
Nipsey Russell
If you’re guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can’t imagine how you could have changed it, that’s very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it’s more difficult not to be at fault because it’s a subtler thing.
Darin Strauss
Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don’t find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
Jacques Verges
The soldiers at the DMZ are all very young, and I feel guilty about that.
Lee Min-ho
I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It’s ridiculous. I’ll call her and be like, ‘I saw this dress, can I get it?’ And she’ll say, ‘Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.’
Margaret Qualley
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man’s wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Saint Augustine
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
Livy
Sometimes you think you aren’t a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you’re a mom. You want to be everywhere.
Carine Roitfeld
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy.
Jim Carrey
Doctors are wonderful people, but they don’t know everything. We’re all responsible for our own health, and shouldn’t feel guilty if we ask questions or get second opinions.
Shannon Bream
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there’s just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
Carl Hiaasen
I’m not a big TV guy, but I love either ‘Auction Hunters’ or those repo shows on truTV. It’s really just glorified ‘Jerry Springer’ is all it is. Every now and then, it’s just mindless entertainment. We’ll be on the bus, and we’ll laugh at it. Those are my guilty pleasures.
Eric Church
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you’re innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
Tommy Bond
I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.
Nikki DeLoach
Hollywood’s built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Zach Galifianakis
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I’m going to splurge on something, it’s more for my home than for clothes.
Kourtney Kardashian
My guilty pleasure is just eating really bad food. I cannot help myself, but you’re on the road during the night, and the only thing open is a fast food place, and you’re like ‘Alright. Not my fault. It’s time to eat.’
Paige
I first got engaged when I was 19, but I just knew there was more of life out there for me. I called it off six weeks before the wedding. I felt terribly guilty because he was such a nice boy, and I was in love with him. But it was the wrong time.
Anita Dobson
I’m not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.
Tom Felton
I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says ‘I was afraid’ of a big black guy, that’s enough to say, ‘Okay, not guilty,’ or, ‘No indictment.’ It’s persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
Yance Ford
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that lie, which comes from the true God and which reopens channels of communication mankind itself had closed through self-imprisonment in its own violent cultures.
Rene Girard
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.
Dominick Dunne
It’s a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
Dave Filoni
I don’t categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Rachael Ray
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted – steal, you know, lie, whatever.
Milos Forman
I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big

I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That’s definitely a guilty pleasure because I can’t be doing that all the time.
Sanaa Lathan
My closet CD that I don’t admit that I really listen to is Celine Dion. My husband’s sister passed away in a car accident, and she was a huge Celine Dion fan. ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ was her favorite song, so that’s kind of my guilty pleasure.
Martie Maguire
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot… lying just isn’t worth it. But I think I’m guilty of telling people that I’m 5 minutes away when really I’m about 45 or an hour away.
Monica Raymund
When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.
Andrew Fastow
We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.
Monica Johnson
I’m guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it’s a naivete that I really don’t want to abandon, not even now.
Jock Sturges
While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time work. Parents who are able to raise well-adjusted children while also maintaining a career make sacrifices to keep the peace.
Amy Morin
It does violence to the English language to assert that a president who has violated a duty entrusted to him by the Constitution is not guilty of official misconduct.
Charles T. Canady
Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
Abbey Clancy
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
Catherine Deneuve
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret – that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
Geraldine McCaughrean
It’s sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson
I never feel guilty or anything after a podcast; I feel better.
Nikki Glaser
Preconceived judgments. I think we’re all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It’s such a disease and gets spread so much through social media.
Suki Waterhouse
I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I’m not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.
Jason Robards
People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.
Jon Richardson
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I’m out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.
Maureen Dowd
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn’t mistaken for anything other than a toy.
Clint Smith
Watching ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’ is my guilty pleasure.
Sue Townsend
The stress of not allowing yourself life’s guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging.
Gabe Kapler
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
Janine di Giovanni