Quotes About The Deadly Sins

#1. I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

#2. Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.

Peter Drucker

#3. Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.

Julie Anne Long

#4. Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.

Colleen Hoover

#5. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

Charlie Munger

#6. The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Jess C. Scott

#7. Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatest
of them all, because it is the only one that sins against life.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#8. All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

Robert Breault

#10. But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Edward Abbey

#11. Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

James Carlos Blake

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

Tom Robbins

#13. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

Charles Dickens

#14. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#15. The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

#16. Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.

Jamie Wyeth

#17. You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

Lloyd A. Green

#18. Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.

Joseph Epstein

#19. It's beginning to feel like he's shuffling his way through the seven deadly sins, in ascending order of my favourites.

Mackenzi Lee

#20. Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.

Marita Knobel

#22. Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#23. A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

Corey Taylor

#25. This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.

R.W. Schmidt

#26. Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Reid Hoffman

#27. I realize that lust stands high in the list of deadly sins. And yet lust - the tightening of the throat, the flushed cheeks, the raging appetite - is the only word accurate to describe the sensation I felt that morning, as the painted door closed and I was left with the liberty of all those books.

Geraldine Brooks

#28. I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

Jenny Colgan

#29. I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.

Shannon Celebi

#30. Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

Richard M. Nixon

#31. A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another.

Rafael Sabatini

#32. Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#33. Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

Lester Del Rey

#34. These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Martin Amis

#35. In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Joseph Epstein

#36. Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

John Stott

#37. In Dante's philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the seven deadly sins.

Sylvain Reynard

#38. The seven deadly sins ... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

#39. Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn't any fun. "Envy is crazy," remarks Munger. "It's 100 percent destructive. . . . If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better.

Guy Spier

#40. I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

Warren Zevon

#41. All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Marilyn Manson

#42. His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#43. Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.'

John Joseph Adams

#44. Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.

Michael Pollan

#45. The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Corey Taylor

#46. Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?

Peter Kreeft

#47. I feel like a goddess, jailed in her Olympus. Little wonder how the gods toyed with humans. Toyed with women, to watch them squirm, pollinate the seeds of despair; toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.

Ellen Hopkins

#48. People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.

David Lagercrantz

#49. Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

Anna Quindlen

#50. In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Elizabeth Goudge

#51. The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful ... or fun for that matter.

Dave Mustaine

#52. Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Martin Luther

#53. As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Robert Breault

#54. THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: LUST - BLUE GLUTTONY - ORANGE GREED - YELLOW SLOTH - BLACK WRATH - RED ENVY - GREEN PRIDE - PURPLE

Abi Ketner