Canting Quotes

6 quotes by 5 authors

• Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. — Robert Burns
• Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of… — Laurence Sterne
• ... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… — Thomas Jefferson
• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute… — Nicholas Cresswell
• The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Canting Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 6 Canting Quotes as follows:

• 1 Canting Quote by Robert Burns
• 1 Canting Quote by Laurence Sterne
• 1 Canting Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Canting Quote by Nicholas Cresswell
• 1 Canting Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson