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Conscience: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound,— M. M. ii. 3

Or hollowly put on. Go to your bosom; Knock there; and ask your heart what it doth know.— M. M. ii. 2

Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Keep leets and law-days, and in sessions sit With meditations lawful?— 0. iii. 3

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.— H. VI. PT. II. iii. 2.

I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,— H. VIII. iii. 2

A still and quiet conscience. You shall see, anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work; but what of that? Your majesty, and we that have free souls, it touches us not: Let the gall'd jade wince, our withers— H. iii. 2.

are unwrung. Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; Thus runs the world away.— H. iii. 2.

I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick; if he do blench, I know my course.— H. ii. 2.

I'll not meddle with it, it is a dangerous thing, it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with a neighbour's wife, but it detects him: 'Tis a blushing shame-fac'd spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold, that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing.— R. III. i. 4.

Guilty

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale; And every tale condemns me for a villain.— R. III. v. 3.

How is't with me when every noise appals me? Shakesprarian Dictionary.