“ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.” MatterViewsKnowingCrimePositionCriminalsGuiltyAttorneyFeesComplicityAccomplices Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth, and I don't mean me being poor or rich, I mean knowing that 40 quid that gets spent on a pair of shoes could go a long way for a family in Georgia for a week or even a month, having experienced that, you're a bit more [guilty].” WayMeanLongDifferentStuffBitsWealthPoorKnowingRichWeekMonthsClothesShoesExtremesSillyGuiltyPairsLong WayGeorgiaPair Of ShoesSilly Things Author:Katie Melua
“There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.” IfsPleasureActingKnowingGuiltyReleaseRudeGuilty PleasureBeing Rude Author:Laurence Fox
“Particularly when I thought of myself as a Wallace Stevens acolyte, I wrote very difficult poetry and I was really guilty of not knowing what I was talking about. I was going for a kind of clever verbal effect. I was trying to sound linguistically or verbally interesting. I had a sense, I guess, from just reading a lot of poetry of how a poem would start and how it would end but really I didn't know what I was doing. It had very little connection to my life.” KnowsTryingKindLittlesEndsReadingDifficultSoundInterestingTalkingKnowingEffectsConnectionsCleverGuiltyNot Knowing Author:Billy Collins