Sanctimony Quotes

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Some of the most intelligent people I've met in my life are priests and pastors; now, a lot of them aren't that, though. Some of the most sanctimonious and hypocritical people I've met are priests and pastors, also.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Treating politics like a religion also makes it more emotionally volatile, more tribal (because differences of opinion become matters of good and evil) and more prone to outbreaks of moralizing and piety.

When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

We are living in a sanctimonious age.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy under the cloak of religion, and state the base falsehood he has done.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.