there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty…

“Now listen to me, Buddy: there is only one unpardonable sin - deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. That, never.”

— Truman Capote

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

— Tennessee Williams

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being…

— William Ralph Inge

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

— Rae Foley

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

— Anonymous

“He inhaled deeply and exhaled the word “people.” Not so much an indictment as in wonderment. That there could be so much deliberate cruelty…

— Louise Penny

To insult someone we call him estial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult.

— Isaac Asimov

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in…

— Tennessee Williams

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

— Germaine Greer

... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

— Thomas Huxley

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The unpardonable sin is the sin of inadvertence, of not being alert, not quite awake. —Joseph Campbell”

— Dan Tricarico

“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…

— Christopher Hitchens