Quoted by M. Samuel, Prince of the Ghetto, 146.
“Lying is the greatest of all sins.”
“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”
“The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.”
The Jester's Plea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.”
O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.
Quincas Borba (1891) ch. 32; Clotilde Wilson (trans.) Philosopher or Dog? (New York: Noonday Press, 1954) p. 41.
“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom
“South San Francisco The Industrial City is ugly as sin but somebody lives there: Allison, in fact.”
Adverbs (2006), Wrongly
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
