Alfred de Musset Quotes

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.

Alfred de Musset

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Sin

• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Laziness

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Natural

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Burden

• They all come off as the Great Sphinx because they have marching orders about not talking to the media.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Great
  • Media
  • Orders

• The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Blood
  • Sin

• Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Doubt
  • Sin
  • Rebirth

• The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Soul
  • Sin
  • Manuscript

• There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Sick
  • Sin

• Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Sin
  • Dating
  • Gin

• I don't have to follow your orders. I don't work here anymore.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Orders

• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Sometimes

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Joy
  • Pride
  • Sin

• Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Brain

• Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

  

  David Wallace Crowder
  • Way
  • Tradition
  • State

• Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Sin
  • Priest
  • Orders