"Culpa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she went on, "I know Mr. March is an angel, a saint—but—but—mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, I don't want him to show me those special treasures of yours. He'll take the life out of them. I know it. And make them seem like things read of merely in a learned book. Be very charming to me, Richard. Waste ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... her! Yet is it not a thing astonishing that I should ask you, a stranger, Monsieur, how my own child is looking? Culpa mea! culpa mea!" and she clutched at her rosary, and mumbled an ave, with her ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... come from yourselves," roundly replied the Englishman, "for you refuse to do what in reason and law you are bound to do. And the more demands the more 'mora aut potius culpa' in you. You, of all men, have least cause to hold such language, who so confidently and even disdainfully answered our demand for the commission, in Mr. Cecil's presence, and promised to show a perfect one at the very first meeting. As for ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... impatiently. "Poor little book. I ought to have burned it years ago; and I ought to have learned by this time to keep my mouth shut. They've always said I look like an Indian, but an Indian never tells anything. I've told just one story too many. Mea maxima culpa!" ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson
... mea culpa, mademoiselle," the old lawyer said stoutly; "we have always allowed him to have his own way; he needed stern guidance; he could not have it from you with your inexperience of life; nor from me, for he would not listen to me. He ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... molestissime ferre debent homines quae ipsorum culpa contracta sunt, men ought to chafe most over those things which have been brought about by their own fault (as opposed ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... and she wanted to weep. Had she been alone, she would have knelt down and beaten her breast, saying, "Mea culpa! mea culpa!" Acte, taking her hand at that moment, led her through the interior apartments to the grand triclinium, where the feast was to be. Darkness was in her eyes, and a roaring in her ears from internal emotion; the beating of ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... cover of the MEA CULPA, striking her breast so vigorously that everybody, even the lady with the red cushion, turned round toward her. Porthos paid no attention. Nevertheless, he understood ...
— The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... as happy at Edinburgh as at Chester? In culpa est animus, qui se non effugit usquam[1280]. Please yourself with your wife and children, ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... absque culpa, licet contingat semen extra vas effundi; id enim per accidens fit ex ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... and grace!" —Sir Ingoldsby Bray fell flat on his face— "Mea culpa!—in sooth I'm in pitiful case. Peccavi! peccavi!—I've done every wrong! But my heart it is stout and my arm it is strong, And I'll fight for Holy Church all the day long; And the Ingoldsby lands are broad and fair, ...
— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various |
