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  • The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

    Fun   Book   Pride  
  • Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

    Greed   Ego   Sloth  
    "Reid Hoffman", www.wsj.com. June 23, 2011.
  • Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions
  • The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

    "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.
  • Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.

    "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.
  • These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

    Pride   Envy   Boredom  
    Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape
  • The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

    Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.99, Da Capo Press
  • In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

    Envy   May   Sin  
    Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press
  • All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

    Pride   Feet   Self  
  • But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

    Wrath   Lust   Next  
    Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”
  • I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

    Book   Envy   Wish  
  • Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

    Lust   Sin   Seven  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.112, Bantam
  • Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  • I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!

    Book   Oysters   Envy  
    Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.36, Hackett Publishing
  • The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

  • Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

    Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112
  • Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

    Christian   War   Pride  
    Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.126, Best Books on
  • All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

    Pride   Lust   Sloth  
    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America
  • The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

    Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”, London : J. Cape
  • Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

    Kings   Fun   Pain  
    FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014
  • Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

    Running   Teacher   Rap  
    Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.111, Ballantine Books
  • I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

    Evil   Trying   Schedules  
    Song: Mr. Bad Example, Album: Genius: Best of Warren Zevon
  • Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

    Soul   Sin   Hell  
  • Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

    Pride   Essence   Firsts  
  • Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

    Fun   Envy   Sin  
  • Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

    Pride   Evil   Affliction  
    Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

    Letting Go   Past   Two  
  • self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

    Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, p.98, Hachette UK
  • Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the least sexy of the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas winnowed it down for me: acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh prevails completely over the spirit. You don’t just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don’t care, and you don’t care that you don’t care.

  • All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

    Nature   Regret   Hate  
    Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.
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