A Quote by Germaine Greer

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

Germaine Greer

Quote Topics

Boring Grew Grew Up Sin Thinking Up

Quote Author

Germaine Greer
Australian - Activist
Born: January 29, 1939

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Rebecca West

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Brigham Young

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Dorothy L. Sayers

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Theodore Roosevelt

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Truman Capote

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Rae Foley

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.

Peter Kreeft

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

Elbert Hubbard

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

Oscar Pistorius

Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.

Adrian Desmond

A Quote by Germaine Greer

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors