We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards
Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful. . . and deadly.
The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.
Complacency is easy. . . and it is a deadly foe of spiritual growth.
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.