Pious Quotes

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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better… — Seneca the Younger
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness,… — William Prynne
Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our… — Isak Dinesen
It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on. — Thomas Paine
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood.… — Galileo Galilei
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. — James Russell Lowell
For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat — Thomas Hood
The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances,… — Laurence Sterne
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon… — Thomas Huxley
I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to… — Paul Beatty
Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are… — Henri Nouwen
872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured… — Winston Churchill
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As… — Hartley Coleridge
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? — Sigmund Freud
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. — Thomas Fuller
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.… — Terry Eagleton
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very… — Penn Jillette
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. — C.S. Lewis

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