Seven Deadly Quotes
31 quotes by 26 authors
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
— Samuel Butler
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound…
— Charles Dickens
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
— Joseph Epstein
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
— Joseph Epstein
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some…
— Angus Wilson
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The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins'…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
— Douglas Coupland
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
— John Stott
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The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental…
— Max Lerner
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
— Michael Pollan
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No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying…
— Chuck Eddy
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As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
— Robert Breault
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The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
— Robert Breault
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Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.
— Warren Zevon
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All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them,…
— Marilyn Manson
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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
— Reid Hoffman
Who Wrote These Seven Deadly Quotes
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