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Conscience, Guilty: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.— H. VI. PT. III. v. 6.

How smart A lash that speech doth give my conscience !— H. iii. 1.

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.— H. iii. 4.

Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass, Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded.— T. ii. 2.

Soft; I did but dream, O, coward conscience, how dost thou affright me!— R. III. v. 3.

With clog of conscience and sour melancholy. R. II.— R. II. v. 6

Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest.— M. V. 3

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart?— M. v 3

Seared

If it were a kybe, 'Twould put me to my slipper; but I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt, ere they molest.— T. ii. 1

Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first, to keep me strong in awe.— R. III. v. 3.