Depiction Quote by Umberto Eco

“The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has…

— Nell Gavin

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

— Mikhail Lermontov

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

— Stephen Charnock

“Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things . . . what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its…

— John Owen

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

— Anonymous

“The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.”

— Bertrand Russell

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

— E. L. Doctorow

Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than…

— Sally Stanford

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

— Andre Gide

“Whoever said that sin was not fun? Whoever claimed that Lucifer was not handsome, persuasive, easy, friendly? Sin is attractive and desirable. Transgression wears…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

— Margaret Oliphant

Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin; the consequences of which are fully detailed, and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann