“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
“There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.”
"Rudyard Kipling: A Pre-Raphaelite's Son", p. 36
The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers (1980)
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British writer and critic 1900–1997Related quotes
“The worst sin any of us can commit is not committing any sin.”
Prevale
(1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il peccato peggiore che ognuno di noi possa commettere è non commettere alcun peccato.
Source: prevale.net
“I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy.”
Jorge Luis Borges
(1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
"El Remordimiento" [Remorse] in La moneda de hierro [The Iron Coin], as quoted in Borges at Eighty : Conversations (1982) edited by Willis Barnstone, also in Hispanic Literature Criticism : Allende to Jiménez (1994), p. 298
William Wulf
(1939) American computer scientist
"A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, August 1972, pp. 791-97.
“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 8 (p. 25)
“The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.”
Thomas Brooks
(1608–1680) English Puritan
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
“How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.”
Suzanne Curchod
(1737–1794) French-Swiss salonist and writer
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 229.