(178 quotes found)
“Taxicab Confessions.”
Ozzy Osbourne
“Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.”
Fanny Brice
“Confessions on a Dance Floor.”
Madonna
“We were alone in that room for hours every morning, and we finally started to talk. Diane eventually confessed, and we became great friends.”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“I confess I've never felt like a passenger.”
Roger Waters
“Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“For him who confesses, shams are over and realities have begun; he has exteriorized his rottenness. If he has not actually got rid of it, he at least no longer smears it over with a hypocritical show of virtue -- he lives at least upon a basis of veracity.”
William James
“It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.”
William Osler
“In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity”
Robert Browning