(178 quotes found)
“I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections”
William Congreve
“As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?”
Lord Byron
“I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.”
August Wilson
“Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.”
Bible
“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Confess and be hanged”
Christopher Marlowe
“The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.”
Tori Amos
“A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.”
Oscar Wilde
“An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation”
Thomas Dewar
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency”
Publilius Syrus
