Quotes on Sin

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Author: Saint Augustine

I know what sin is.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Author: Jose Bergamin

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Author: Georges Bernanos

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Author: John Bunyan

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

Author: Thomas Campbell

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Author: Edwin Cole

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.

Author: Edwin Cole

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Author: Elvis Costello

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Author: Frank Dane

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Author: John Flavel

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

Author: Veronica Franco

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Author: William Gurnall

For a married woman to flirt is a sin.

Author: Anna Held

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Author: Henrik Ibsen

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Author: Doris Lessing

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.

Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Author: Jose Marti

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.

Author: Norma McCorvey

It's a sin to be tired.

Author: Kate Moss

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Author: Max Muller

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Author: Al Pacino

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Author: John Ruskin

Sin is geographical.

Author: Bertrand Russell

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Author: Susan Sarandon

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Author: Francis Schaeffer

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Author: Baruch Spinoza

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Author: Josiah Stamp

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Author: Laurence Sterne

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Author: Alfred Tennyson

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Author: Alice Walker

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Author: John Webster

There is no sin except stupidity.

Author: Oscar Wilde