“In art, the obvious is a sin”—Edward Dmytryk

For our sins
Divine comedy
Is no joke

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence—Alice Walker

Art dares coax
From a sinner’s grin
A pardon

‘Tis no sin to cheat the devil—Daniel Defoe

Game warden
Who gets the last laugh
Who first sins

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable—Mark Twain

Shifting winds
Shrift for chastity
Surceases

There is no sinner like a young saint—Aphra Behn

Sin teaches
Lust for life gets hotter
Than Lot’s wife

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall—William Shakespeare

See the light
At the tunnel’s end
From the train

The only sin is mediocrity—Martha Graham

Saving grace
The joke is on us
For our sins

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it—Mignon McLaughlin