Sins

Famous quotes containing the word sins:

“Madam, or sir, would you visit on the butterfly the sins of the caterpillar?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Now, neigbour confines, purge you of your scum!
Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.”
—André Gide (1869–1951)