Confess Quotes

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.

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.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

You are committed to what you confess.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Confess and be hanged.

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.