Sanctimonious Quotes

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

— Richelle Mead

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

— maureen child

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Edward Hoagland

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

— Pat Robertson

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

— Ralph Thomas Walker

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

— Francis Bacon

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

— Andy Hargreaves

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

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

— Antonin Scalia

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

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

— Alexei Sayle

“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

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

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

— Adam Gopnik

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

— Vivek Shraya

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man…

— Victor Hugo

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved…

— John Irving

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Mark Davis

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

— Norman Tebbit

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

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

— Vernon Howard

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

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

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

— Toba Beta

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

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Voltaire

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— E.K. Johnston

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well…

— Thomas Jefferson

“All you have to do is convince the sanctimonious that they are free of all sin and they'll start throwing stones, or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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

— Julie Klausner