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.

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

One sin another doth provoke.

Sin will pluck on sin.

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

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

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

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

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

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

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

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

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

By that sin fell the angels.

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

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

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

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

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

Give me my sin again.

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

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning