Fascination Quote by Oscar Wilde

“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than…

— Oscar Wilde

“He felt that if he brooded on what he had gone through he would sicken or grow mad. There were sins whose fascination was…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness…

— Evan S. Connell

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

— Democritus

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise,…

— Walter Pater

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy…

— Theodore Dalrymple

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy…

— Michael Ende

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the…

— Edward Dahlberg

“in persons entrenched in serious sin the enemy ordinarily works on the imagination. He fills such persons’ imagination with images of “sensual delights and…

— Timothy M. Gallagher

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life,…

— Leo Tolstoy