confess quotes

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  John1:8^9.

The wiser world doth greater thee confess Than all men else, than thy self only less.

-Thomas Carew
  'To Ben  Jonson, Upon occasion of his Ode of Defiance annexed to his play of  The New Inn'.

I did say yes O at lightning and lashed rod; Thou heardst me truer than tongue confess Thy terror,O Christ,O God.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'The Wreck of the Deutschland', pt.1, stanza 2.

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

- George Bernard Shaw
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.