Unpardonable Sin

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

    “The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

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

    “The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone’s life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)