"Guilty conscience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon the royal platform, leaned against the arm of the throne, and with the charming blush of consciousness turned to him with the quickness of a guilty conscience, eager to hear his praise but fearful lest he secretly condemned her conceit. His eyes were burning with the admiration that knows no defining, and his breath came quick and sharp through parted lips. He involuntarily placed ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... delightful outing. Just now things were different. Small garrisons of American soldiers had crowded forward and were occupying the largest cities along her route. As yet she had not gotten beyond them. "A guilty conscience needs no accuser"; everywhere that she went she imagined herself to be ...
— The Woman with a Stone Heart - A Romance of the Philippine War • Oscar William Coursey
... aristocracy read the title of People I have Met, I can fancy the whole female peerage of Willis's time in a shudder; and the melancholy marchioness, and the abandoned countess, and the heart-stricken baroness trembling as each gets the volume, and asks of her guilty conscience, "Gracious goodness, is the monster ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston
... asperity; for I am not a person to inaugurate a dinner hour one day and change it the next. Bates wished to make conversation,—the sure sign of a guilty conscience in a servant,—and I was not ...
— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson
... sound of movement. The keepers were going down the hill again. To Barrett's guilty conscience it seemed that they were coming up. ...
— The Pothunters • P. G. Wodehouse
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