Deadly sins Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deadly sins Monotony Mother Parenting
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives… — Rafael Sabatini - The Hounds of God Copy Share Image
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it… — Jonathan Sadowski Copy Share Image
“I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“In Dante’s philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
“From outside the evangelical community, this seems an astonishing confession. Since when is solitude one of the Seven Deadly Sins? But to a fellow… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
