A Quote by Tennessee Williams

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Tennessee Williams

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Cruelty Deliberate Only Sin Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

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Tennessee Williams
American - Dramatist
March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Tennessee Williams

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

Rae Foley

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

Truman Capote

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Malcolm Forbes

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Gene Wolfe

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Faina Ranevskaya

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cruelty is the only sin.

Ellen Glasgow

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Fulton J. Sheen

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.