Character Quote by William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

— William Shakespeare

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Virtue - to be good and just - Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of…

— Alfred Tennyson

“When one sins, one should sin magnificently.”

— Nora Roberts

“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.”

— Anne Perry

“Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our…

— Barbara Duguid

“All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without God's grace, we stumble in sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call…

— Oscar Wilde

“When tempted to sin, I often repeat to myself two truths: holiness brings happiness, and purity brings power.”

— Sidney Greidanus

“Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.”

— John Donne

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan