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)

“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)