Dennis Potter Quotes

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

He that does evil hates the light.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

If you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark; you can't blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.