Deadly Sin Quotes

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in nature - maternal love ... In not a single instance known to science has the cure of any human disease resulted necessarily from this fallacious method of research.

Envy is a deadly sin!

Avarice is a deadly sin.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.