Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. Jane Porter.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits 25 upon it. Congreve.

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings. Rowe.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. Scott.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. Othello, v. 1.

Guilty consciences make men cowards. Vanbrugh.

Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge, 30 for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph. Fuller.

Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all. Carlyle.

Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius—The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. Cic.

Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen—A good conscience is a soft pillow. Ger. Pr.