best quotations about
Sin |
and Vice
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Quotations
 | Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 10 likes |
 | Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | You will not become a saint through other people's sins. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 6 likes |
 | If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 6 likes |
 | Love the sinner and hate the sin. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 6 likes |
 | We are those who painted the world red with our sin. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 5 likes |
 | Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | God fishes souls with a fishing rod, Satan fishes them with a net. — Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer 5 likes |
 | Despair is the only unforgivable sin. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 4 likes |
 | In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 4 likes |
 | Sin is whatever obscures the soul. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 4 likes |
 | And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 4 likes |
 | You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 3 likes |
 | If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Measure for Measure 3 likes |
 | Let thy Vices die before thee. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
 | Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, I would rather be a satyr than a saint. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Repentance is but want of power to sin. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | The only sin is the sin of being born. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 2 likes |
 | You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 2 likes |
 | The essential point of view of Christianity is sin. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 2 likes |
 | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. |
 | Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. |
 | Sin should be a mountain of pork to get in, a pond of wine to dive in and swim, not a small snack. |
| Are you really asking me about the heart of a sinner? I have the heart of a pious man and it’s full of demons. |
 | Vices are often habits rather than passions. |
 | There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. |
 | Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
 | Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. |
 | Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. |
 | Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theater must take an interest in sin, if the young are to be willing to go there. |
 | All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. |
| Christianity has done a lot for love by making it a sin. |
 | People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. |
 | The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. |
 | All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. |
 | The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. |
| If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. |
 | Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy. |
 | The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues |
| The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. |
 | The women today are no more forgiving us our sins; they do not even forgive us theirs. |
Bible Quotes
 | Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. — Gospel of John ‐ 8:7 6 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Who is allowed to make mistakes, makes fewer mistakes. Cui peccare licet, peccat minus. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 76 likes |
 | The man who sleeps does not sin. Qui dormit, non peccat. 52 likes |
 | Vice thrives and lives by concealment. Alitur vitium, vivitque tegendo. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 18 likes |
 | If I have led a pure life… Si vitam puriter egi. — Catullus, 84-54 BC, Roman poet 18 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | You have a taste of storm on your lips –But where have you been? |
| In my heart I had the thorn of a passion. I managed to take it off one day. I no longer feel my heart. |
Funny Quotes
 | If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. — Jay Leno, 1950-, American TV host 7 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The things that are not good to do are neither good to talk about. Ά ποιείν αισχρόν, ταύτα νόμιζε μηδέ λέγειν είναι καλόν. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 4 likes |
 | Many like the worst of life. Πολλοίς αρέσκει τα του βίου χείρονα. 3 likes |
 | Avoid even speaking of bad deeds. Φαύλων έργων και τους λόγους παραιτητέον. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 2 likes |
