12 Metaphors for guilts

Guilt is a bad logician.

They even extended their compassion to crime, and adopting the paradox of Plato, that all guilt is ignorance, treated it as an involuntary disease, and declared that the only legitimate ground of punishment is prevention.

"Ah, ah, my lady, not quick enough!" thought he; and, with the most innocent air in the world, he launched forth in a tirade against the man then in custody, as though his guilt were an accepted fact and nothing but the formalities of the law stood between him and his final doom.

Caldigate's guilt was an idea fixed in his mind which no Secretary of State, no Judge Bramber, no brother could expel.

But guilt is, certainly, a heavy load; it sinks and damps the spirits.

In this he declared that the guilt of design and intention only was histhat in the act itself he had been anticipated.

Then did the husband know his wife to be innocent, and he told her father all, and they both mourned for her, and both offered themselves to the executionerthe one that he was guilty, the other to save his son-in- law whose guilt was innocence.

heir own guilt; and though it may be politic to forget that their survivors were also their accomplices, they are not objects of esteemand the contemporary popularity, which a long seclusion has obtained for them, will vanish, if their future conduct should be directed by their original principles.

Shakspeare has worked this piece of history into a scene, in the second part of Henry VI., but has made the poor armourer confess his treasons in his dying moments; for in the time in which this custom prevailed, it never was even suspected but that guilt must have been the portion of the vanquished.

Ludibras: Why should the prophet betray us? Ichtharion: Because the guilt of the false prophecy is not his guilt; it is ours; and the King may spare him if he tells him that.

Our fellow-captives are a motley collection of the victims of nature, of justice, and of tyrannyof lunatics who are insensible of their situation, of thieves who deserve it, and of political criminals whose guilt is the accident of birth, the imputation of wealth, or the profession of a clergyman.

But Guilt was my grim chamberlain That lighted me to bed, And drew my midnight curtains round, With fingers bloody red!

12 Metaphors for  guilts