“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

— Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

Edward Bangs (1756–1818)

“The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.”

Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer

The Hummingbird
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

“It had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage, — not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air — but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad.”

Laurence Sterne book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book IV, Ch. 31.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“A million feathers falling down,
a million stars that touch the ground,
so many secrets to be found
amid the falling snow.”

Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)

“the protective, healing silence of forgiveness is just as much part of confession as its quality of judgment - stressed so much more. For in confession sin is not so much subjected to the light of the word, of judicial sentence, as received into the darkness of merciful, secret acceptance, sunk into divine oblivion.”

Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) Austrian writer and noble

Broken Lights Letters p. 361.

“No one has committed so much sin in his life that he deserves to die twice.”

José Saramago book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Original: (pt) Ninguém na vida teve tantos pecados que mereça morrer duas vezes.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 362

“Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

Thoughts and Glimpses (1916-17)

“I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.”

Tom Stoppard The Invention of Love

Housman, Act I
The Invention of Love (1997)

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.”

Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) British poet

The Jester's Plea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.”

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