Sin Quotes - page 3

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. (Henry Miller)
The sin of thousands always goes unpunished. View quote
Lucan
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. View quote
Emil Cioran
Every sin is the result of a collaboration. View quote
Stephen Crane
She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. View quote
John Dryden
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. View quote
John Wesley
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. View quote
Laurence Sterne
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist. View quote
Muriel Spark
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. View quote
Richard Bach
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence. View quote
Azar Nafisi
If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin. (Katherine Harris)
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. View quote
Ellen G. White
Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I always say beauty is only sin deep. View quote
Saki
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. View quote
Paula Poundstone
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". View quote
Muhammad Ali
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . . (William Faulkner)
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. View quote
Doris Lessing
The look of love alarms Because tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lovers hire. View quote
William Blake
Being seventy is not a sin. View quote
Golda Meir
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox