Quotes of Wrongdoer - somelinesforyou

“ How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ All human history attests That happiness for man, — the hungry sinner! — Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Hark the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled! ”

- Charles Wesley

“ Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. ”

- Bible

“ The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. ”

- Democritus

“ As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The way of transgressors is hard. ”

- Bible

“ Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ”

- Frederick W. Faber

“ One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. ”

- John Bunyan

“ The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner, destroyeth much good. ”

- The Bible

“ Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun. ”

- Billy Joel

“ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. ”

- Bible

“ In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. ”

- Bible

“ I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,' 'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. ”

- Sadi

“ She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last. ”

- John Dryden

“ Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven! ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ”

- Samuel Rutherford

“ Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification! ”

- Helen Rowland
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