Unpardonable Sin

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

    ... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage—only for appendages and dead weights to husbands—of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves—is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.
    Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)

    No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. He who wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)