Sin Quotes

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. (Daniel Defoe)
There is no sin except stupidity. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin. View quote
Anatole France
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. View quote
Simone Weil
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. (Albert Camus)
The only sin is the sin of being born. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Remorse is the pain of sin. View quote
Theodore Parker
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Do not be quick to talk about three things: about God until you establish faith in Him, about another's sin until you remember your own and about tomorrow until you see the dawn. View quote
Nikolaj Velimirovic
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. View quote
Robert Frost
Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. View quote
Alice Walker
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. View quote
Robert Browning
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own - even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. View quote
Alain-René Lesage
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. View quote
Arnold Bennett