William Shakespeare Sin Quotations

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

O, what authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal!

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Give me my sin again.

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ...

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

By that sin fell the angels.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

Sin will pluck on sin.

One sin another doth provoke.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.