Sanctimonious Quotes

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

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

— Adam Gopnik

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

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

— Ellen Glasgow

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Pat Robertson

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

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

— Toba Beta

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Bernard Goldberg

There are good intentions behind many peoples conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified…

— Julie Klausner

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Vernon Howard

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

— Ralph Thomas Walker

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

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

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

— Voltaire

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Vivek Shraya

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

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in…

— Arthur C. Clarke