(179 quotes found)
“Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.”
Helen Rowland
“Nothing spoils a confession like repentance”
Anatole France
“There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week”
Henry Ward Beecher
“I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.”
Wilbur Wright
“I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.”
H. G. Wells
“Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.”
Dorothy Dix
“Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them”
Gerald Brenan
“Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.”
Roland Barthes
