Deadly Sin

Famous quotes containing the words deadly sin, deadly and/or sin:

    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 (1856–1950)

    Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider
    Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Those who sin against Heaven will have no one to pray to.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.