"Self-reproach" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... No; but only because he did not choose to foresee. He had chosen to be a god; to kill and to make alive by his own will and law; and behold, he had become a devil by that very act. Who can—and who dare, even if he could—withdraw the sacred veil from those bitter agonies of inward shame and self-reproach, made all the more intense by his clear and undoubting knowledge that he was forgiven? What dread of punishment, what blank despair, could have pierced that great heart so deeply as did the thought that the God whom he had hated and defied had returned him good ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley
... to offer at Stoneborough! Gertrude pronounced that 'she played at it sometimes at Maplewood, where she had nothing better to do,' and then retreated to her own devices. Ethel's heart sank both with dread of the afternoon, and with self-reproach at her spoilt child's discourtesy, whence she knew there would be no rousing her without an incapacitating discussion; and on she wandered in the garden with the guests, receiving instruction where the hoops might ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... I have overtaxed her strength," Lord Cameron said, in a tone of self-reproach, as he lifted a rueful ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... a fretful contortion, and obeyed. So it went on all the morning, Ethel's eagerness checked by Miss Winter's dry manner, producing pettishness, till Ethel, in a state between self-reproach and a sense of injustice, went up to prepare for dinner, and to visit Margaret ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... doctrine at least which the people who most offend these principles are the most zealous in propagating. Belmont had no refuge against self-reproach, but in cherishing such trains ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
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