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.

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.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage hardihood endurance faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Sadly we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom the poetic passion the desire of beauty the love of art for its own sake has most.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

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

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

I have the problems of I must confess old age.

I must confess I was born at a very early age.