Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Quotes about sanctimonious (15 Quotes)
You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!
He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.
It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God easy to entangle the soul in a network of petty observances, difficult to yield the obedience of an enlightened heart easy to be haughtily exclusive, difficult to be humbly spiritual easy to be an ascetic or a formalist, difficult to be pure, and loving, and wise, and free easy to be a Pharisee, difficult to be a disciple very easy to embrace a self-satisfying and sanctimonious system of rabbinical observances, very difficult to love God with all the heart, and all the might, and all the soul, and all the strength.
Those who take bribes, cheats and rogues, gamblers, those who live by teaching ,the performance of auspicious ceremonies, sanctimonious hypocrites, and fortune tellers, Officials of high rank and physicians who act improperly, men living by showing their
He just barely begins to make his point before he runs out of time. ... He can tend to have a sanctimonious streak. His response to hard questions is often of the 'how-dare-you' variety.
The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.
I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.
What will the preachers say ... to teach men not to persecute men for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.
Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
No solemn sanctimonious face I pull, Nor think I 'm pious when I 'm only bilious Nor study in my sanctum supercilious, To frame a Sabbath Bill or forge a Bull.