Sanctimonious Quotes

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

— Francis Bacon

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

— Ralph Thomas Walker

“Have you met thy Lord, my son? Have you been dead before, father?”

— Toba Beta

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.

— Jacob Weisberg

“Well, hell, Rico. You’re wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.”

— maureen child

“You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!”

— Richelle Mead

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

— Pat Robertson

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's…

— James Walsh

Now is not the time for Canadians to be sanctimonious. It is time for us to be prudent and active.

— Vivek Shraya

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I hate to be sanctimonious about it, but it turns out that good conversation solves a great many problems.”

— E.K. Johnston

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…

— Voltaire

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

— Mark Twain

Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued…

— Libba Bray

I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and…

— Bernard Goldberg

I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to…

— Scott Ritter

The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the…

— Wyndham Lewis

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future?…

— Denise Mina

When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You…

— Amity Shlaes

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.…

— Thomas Jefferson

The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right…

— Randy Alcorn

You see everything depends upon the psychological headquarters from which we live. 'Where am I living from?' Ask yourself that question. If…

— Vernon Howard

For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That…

— Stephen Fry

“What a skeletal wreck of man this is. Translucent flesh and feeble bones, the kind of temple where the whores and villains…

— Stone Sour

There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

— Edward Hoagland

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

— Antonin Scalia

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very…

— George Saunders

“You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me! What has your politics fed on since you've been ruling the world? On butchery and…

— Charles de Coster

“Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.”

— Alexei Sayle

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what…

— Diane Sawyer

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let…

— Ellen Glasgow

The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American…

— Susan Sontag

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable,…

— Norman Tebbit

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am'…

— Mark Davis