Sin Quotes

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

O unfortunates who sin without pleasure! in your errors be more reasonable; be, at least, fortunate sinners. Since you must be damned, be damned for amiable faults.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

Miguel de Cervantes

Every right-minded man utterly despises a coward in private life. Cowardice is the unpardonable sin in a man.

Theodore Roosevelt

The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man.

G. K. Chesterton

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bertrand Russell