All 36 Uses of

conscience
in
The Count of Monte Cristo

Morrel reddened, for his own conscience was not quite clear on politics; besides, what Dantes had told him of his interview with the grand-marshal, and what the emperor had said to him, embarrassed him.†
Chpt 7-8

conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner

So that now, if there were anything to inherit from him, they may do so with easy conscience.†
Chpt 27-28

Nobody knows better than yourself that the bandits of Corsica are not rogues or thieves, but purely and simply fugitives, driven by some sinister motive from their native town or village, and that their fellowship involves no disgrace or stigma; for my own part, I protest that, should I ever go to Corsica, my first visit, ere even I presented myself to the mayor or prefect, should be to the bandits of Colomba, if I could only manage to find them; for, on my conscience, they are a race of men I admire greatly.†
Chpt 37-38

Eugenie Danglars; I cannot in conscience, therefore, let you run down the speeches of a man who will one day say to me, 'Vicomte, you know I give my daughter two millions.'†
Chpt 39-40

"Alas, excellency," returned Bertuccio, joining his hands, and shaking his head in a manner that would have excited the count's laughter, had not thoughts of a superior interest occupied him, and rendered him attentive to the least revelation of this timorous conscience.†
Chpt 43-44

It is a bad sign; a quiet conscience does not occasion such paleness in the cheeks, and such fever in the hands of a man.†
Chpt 43-44

"But, your excellency," replied Bertuccio hesitatingly, "did not the Abbe Busoni, who heard my confession in the prison at Nimes, tell you that I had a heavy burden upon my conscience?"†
Chpt 43-44

The Orientals are stronger than we are in cases of conscience, and, very prudently, have no hell—that is the point.†
Chpt 51-52

"Yet conscience remains," remarked Madame de Villefort in an agitated voice, and with a stifled sigh.†
Chpt 51-52 *

"Yes," answered Monte Cristo "happily, yes, conscience does remain; and if it did not, how wretched we should be!†
Chpt 51-52

After every action requiring exertion, it is conscience that saves us, for it supplies us with a thousand good excuses, of which we alone are judges; and these reasons, howsoever excellent in producing sleep, would avail us but very little before a tribunal, when we were tried for our lives.†
Chpt 51-52

, for instance, was marvellously served by his conscience after the putting away of the two children of Edward IV.†
Chpt 51-52

Thus was Lady Macbeth served by her conscience, when she sought to give her son, and not her husband (whatever Shakespeare may say), a throne.†
Chpt 51-52

Ah, maternal love is a great virtue, a powerful motive—so powerful that it excuses a multitude of things, even if, after Duncan's death, Lady Macbeth had been at all pricked by her conscience.†
Chpt 51-52

Will you tell me what you require, in order to set your conscience quite at ease on the subject?†
Chpt 59-60

"Well, sir," said the young girl, "do you understand now, and is your conscience perfectly at rest on the subject?"†
Chpt 59-60

These 900,000 francs will go out of the family in order to enrich some hospital; but it is ridiculous thus to yield to the caprices of an old man, and I shall, therefore, act according to my conscience.†
Chpt 59-60

But now I will begin with more perseverance and fury than ever, since fear urges me, not my conscience.†
Chpt 67-68

Provided, sir, the particulars you wish for do not interfere with my scruples or my conscience.†
Chpt 69-70

Do not alarm yourself, monsieur, we will duly respect your conscience.†
Chpt 69-70

I say, I believe such is the case, I do not affirm it; besides, liberty of conscience is established in France.†
Chpt 69-70

"Indeed, my dear friend," said M. d'Avrigny, "I would not accuse any one; I speak only of an accident, you understand,—of a mistake,—but whether accident or mistake, the fact is there; it is on my conscience and compels me to speak aloud to you.†
Chpt 73-74

We will not constrain you to help us; we enroll no one against his conscience, but we will compel you to act generously, even if you are not disposed to do so.†
Chpt 75-76

I will consent to share this dreadful secret with you, but I will not allow shame and remorse to grow and increase in my conscience, as crime and misery will in your house.†
Chpt 79-80

"Listen," said the abbe, extending his hand over the wounded man, as if to command him to believe; "this is what the God in whom, on your death-bed, you refuse to believe, has done for you—he gave you health, strength, regular employment, even friends—a life, in fact, which a man might enjoy with a calm conscience.†
Chpt 83-84

If I strike with the sword, or discharge the contents of a pistol at man with whom, for three years, I have been on terms of intimacy, I must, at least, know why I do so; I must meet him with a heart at ease, and that quiet conscience which a man needs when his own arm must save his life.†
Chpt 83-84

Now I have these proofs, Albert, and I am in your confidence, no human power can force me to a duel which your own conscience would reproach you with as criminal, but I come to offer you what you can no longer demand of me.†
Chpt 83-84

Danglars defended himself with the baseness, but at the same time with the assurance, of a man who speaks the truth, at least in part, if not wholly—not for conscience' sake, but through fear.†
Chpt 87-88

I hope the world will not call me cowardly for acting as my conscience dictated.†
Chpt 89-90

"Albert, my child," said Mercedes, "if I had a stronger heart, that is the counsel I would have given you; your conscience has spoken when my voice became too weak; listen to its dictates.†
Chpt 91-92

M. d'Avrigny said he believed they both proceeded from poison; and you, honest man, have ever since been asking your heart and sounding your conscience to know if you ought to expose or conceal this secret.†
Chpt 93-94

A gendarme is one of the most striking objects in the world, even to a man void of uneasiness; but for one who has a timid conscience, and with good cause too, the yellow, blue, and white uniform is really very alarming.†
Chpt 97-98

The dim light, the profound silence, and the gloomy thoughts inspired by the hour, and still more by her own conscience, all combined to produce a sensation of fear; the poisoner was terrified at the contemplation of her own work.†
Chpt 101-102

Some voices were heard to say that the gentleman was right; that he intended to be civil, in his way, and that they would set the example of liberty of conscience,—and the mob retired.†
Chpt 107-108

Definition:

feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior