A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT
Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray--where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
A guilty conscience is a lively enemy.
