#deadly

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#envy #faustus #jealousy #marlowe #seven-deadly-sins

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#gin-blanco #love #owen #scheme #thread

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#deadly #difference #enjoy #fun #games

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#burning #cold #cold war #communism #deadly

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #fun #only #seven #sins

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

#empty #foe #friends #i #i wish

I never knew a woman could be fierce and beautiful and smart before I met you. Every time I see you I think of a hawk, beautiful and deadly. ↗

— Patrick W. Carr

#deadly #hawk #love #smart #beauty

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. ↗

— Jenny Colgan

#chick-lit #gluttony #humor #humour #seven-deadly-sins