Quotes with confess

  • It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
  • Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
  • I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.

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  • Joseph Addison That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Albert Camus A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Publilius Syrus To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Shakespeare Confess yourself to heaven; repent what's past; avoid what is to come.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alfred Kastler I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.
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  • Groucho Marx I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Berkeley Breathed I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord Melbourne It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Ben Shahn It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see?
    Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
    And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest
    Stranded in the park and forced to confess
    To hiding on the Backstreets.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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