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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
— John Stott
Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.
— Julie Anne Long
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.
— Jess C. Scott
Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.
— Joseph Epstein
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
— Joseph Epstein
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. — Karl Ove Knausgard
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
— Elizabeth Goudge
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
— Oscar Wilde
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
— James Carlos Blake
Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
— Peter Kreeft
I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
— Jenny Colgan
Lust is the best of all the deadly sins.
— Colleen Hoover
I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
— Edith Wharton
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.
— David Lagercrantz
Robin Wasserman is the author of several books, including 'Hacking Harvard,' 'Chasing Yesterday,' 'Seven Deadly Sins,' and her latest, 'Skinned.'
— John Joseph Adams
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
— Reid Hoffman
Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.
— Martin Luther
Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.
— Lester Del Rey
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
— Robert Breault
In Dante's philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the seven deadly sins.
— Sylvain Reynard
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
— Robert Breault
