Quotes 161 till 180 of 199.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling (2015) 474 -
There is only one sin and that is theft.
The Kite Runner -
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6. -
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.
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Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
A Distant Mirror -
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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