Katharine Fullerton Gerould Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dog, Past, Lions

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

• Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Nice, Simple, Men

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

• Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dresses, Sin, Conviction

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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