She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.
– Emily Arden
Related Quotes:
- If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint? – Sanchit Gupta
- We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts… – John Durham Peters
- You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself. – Shannon L Alder
- Looks sure can be deceiving: not every -˜ugly’ person is a -˜bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of). – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown. – Victor Hugo
- A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime. – Harshit Walia
- …But even then you have to reckon with a criminal’s chief vice.”What is that?” Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail. – Agatha Christie
- To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace – Malcolm X
- For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea -” that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind. – Alan Dershowitz
- She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all – Rick Yancey
- Be transparent. Let’s build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another. – Germany Kent
- My past conduct was so transparent and so honest that when my enemies spread rumours about me nobody believed them. – Amit Kalantri
- If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. – Dalai Lama XIV
- CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy. – Dalai Lama XIV
- Sometimes it is worth taking a risk, no matter what the consequences. – Emily Arden
- Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars. – Billy Graham
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt. – Ted Bundy
- I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.I enjoy the times of prosperity and endure the times of difficulty. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone. – Margaret Mead
- The question shouldn’t be, ‘Are we guilty about our Colonial past?’ it should be, ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present? – Sara Sheridan
- It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. – Ben Aaronovitch
- Liberty to the honest man is license to the criminal. – Jury Nel
- Though everyone who mattered to him told him to walk away, though Lindsey herself told him to walk away, he was still here. And she was still glad. – Jamie Farrell
- She had lost him. Lost him because she’d let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision. – Harriet Evans
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- That’s how it’s always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me. – Nelson Algren
- In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall. – Emily Thorne
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on. – Meredith Russo
- She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. – Anna Godbersen
- Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest. – Ray Bradbury
- The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. – Betty Friedan
- … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese
- She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. – H Raven Rose
- She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself. – Sara Sheridan
- In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. – Israel Zangwill
- A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn’t. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm. – Eullia Marques
- The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving. – Cambria Hebert