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Sins Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and…
- A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all…
- They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
- The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
- You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
- Charity creates a multitude of sins.
- There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a…
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat…
- There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think…
- Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
- There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins…
- There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the…
- Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
- Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
More Sins Quotes
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you… — Jean Baudrillard
- Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. — Henry Ward Beecher
- When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. — Hilaire Belloc
- Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. — Josh Billings
- Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. — Josh Billings
- It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit. — Josh Billings
- The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in… — Samuel Butler