Quotes on Seven Deadly Sins

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.