Shakespeare Quotes About Conscience and Guilt

    10 quotes across 3 plays.

    Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.

    Cardinal Wolsey·Henry VIII·Act 3, Scene 2

    Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye: I feel my heart new opened.

    Cardinal Wolsey·Henry VIII·Act 3, Scene 2

    Love yourself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.

    Cardinal Wolsey·Henry VIII·Act 3, Scene 2

    Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?

    Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 2, Scene 2

    Macbeth does murder sleep.

    Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 2, Scene 2

    Out, damned spot! out, I say!

    Lady Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 5, Scene 1

    O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 5, Scene 3

    I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 5, Scene 3

    My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 5, Scene 3

    The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!

    Queen Margaret·Richard III·Act 1, Scene 3