The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter! — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own… — William Law Copy Share Image
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth.… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“It is far better to be seen by others as a sinner and plead fervently to Christ for salvation than to be… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
