salve your conscience

Making me feel better will salve your conscience while you get rich."

So salve your conscience, and save your soul, by buying it.

You thought you'd bribe me in the hope it would salve your conscience and change my feelings at the same time."

"Salving your conscience for telling Roger about me?"

"I'm willing to pay your asking price," he said, firmly, "and a hundred more to salve your conscience."

You need more than a bowl of water to solve your, to salve your conscience and to, and to be free from innocent blood.

"It salves your conscience, does it, to send me off to suicide instead of killing me yourself?"

"You sacrifice me to salve your conscience," Magda shrieked, pacing the dingy room.

"Is this to salve your conscience?"

'You want to salve your conscience, be my guest.'

The Sisterhood will not support such an endeavor simply to bolster your pride or salve your conscience."

How's that for salving your conscience?'

You salve your consciences by warning us right at the start that you won't lift a finger to help us once we're in the bag.

"However, if it serves to salve your conscience ..." Tears stung Jack's eyes.

"I'm aware of your penchant for salving your conscience as a professional assassin by your nicety in other matters.

The bride's father and husband, you know, were first-rate killers, and of course the little minx knew it, so salve your conscience with that if you wish, Quinn.

'You get to see your planet-penetrator in action, while at the same time salving your conscience with this conveniently unsuccessful display of eleventhhour caution.'

You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus, buying a drink there to salve your conscience, and crossing the street to pick up a local bus.

You may ask Mrs. Fletcher to relieve the maid of duties for the rest of the day, if that will salve your conscience about keeping a servant awake.

You can always do one of two things in such cases: either accept the attainable or maintain a very intransigent attitude, which may, at the end of the day, salve your conscience on the environmental policy front, but will leave you empty-handed.

A somewhat superficial way out is to vote for a political party that ascribes to redistribution but does not, when in office, actually take any radical redistributive activities (the past performance of the UK Labour Party, for example, may fit this bill) -that way, you get to salve your conscience and keep your money!