We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

— Samuel Butler

I'm in something Paper-Plated. Get it, decapitate it. And if the bomb creams super boats swangs fascinated.

— Killa Kyleon

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

— Austin O'Malley

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life,…

— Henry Wriston

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

— Horace

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done…

— John Ridley

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Short devotions are the bane of deep piety. Calmness, grasp, strength, are never the companions of hurry.”

— E.M. Bounds

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense…

— John Calvin

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

— Tom Robbins

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

“Is that what they teach you at the convent? That the gods demand the hearts from our bodies?”

— Robin LaFevers