Quotes about Sins

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Gilbert Parker

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don`t apply to you.

Terry Pratchett

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Blaise Pascal

I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Moral wounds have this peculiarity, - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Alexandre Dumas

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

A man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.

Chinua Achebe