And love the sin for the dear sinner's sake. [ Juvenal ]

All human history attests
That happiness for man - the hungry sinner —
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! [ Byron ]

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

When a man hath once done blushing, he commences a hardened sinner. [ Proverb ]

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. [ Addison ]

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men. [ Lamb ]