Confess Quotes: Inspiring Words for Openness and Honesty

"I must confess, I was born at a very early age"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"Confess and be hanged"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart"

St. Jerome, Saint

"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years"

Wilbur Wright, Inventor

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"

Cicero, Philosopher

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea"

H.G. Wells, Author

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment"

Earl Warren, Judge

"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"I confess, I do not believe in time"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections"

William Congreve, Poet

"If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"I confess I've never felt like a passenger"

Roger Waters, Musician

"I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess"

Fanny Burney, Novelist

"I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me"

Zane Grey, Author

"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive"

Fanny Burney, Novelist

"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself"

Fanny Brice, Comedian

"I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement"

Rene Cassin, Judge

"I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though"

Gary Cole, Actor

"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish"

George Crumb, Composer

"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal"

Ben Shahn, Artist

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