Unpardonable Sin

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

“To have a place full of delights and nothing but delights, which one does not have to explain and defend to people who have ideas unsympathetic to one, it is to economize the forces which keep one from ending like the wisteria, from committing the unpardonable sin of doing things with difficulty.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

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

“Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore
To go away and sin no more,
But if that effort be too great,
To go away at any rate.”
—Anonymous. “On Queen Caroline,” in Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester (1861)