Quote by John Steinbeck

“Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked…

— John Stienbeck

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man…

— John Steinbeck

“There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people…

— Donna Chapman Gilbert

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Yet man is sometimes a very strange being. By all the Saints, he will talk of doing things, yet leave them undone, and remain…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”

— Julia Glass

“This wretched Inn, where we scarce stay to bait, We call our Dwelling-Place: We call one Step a Race: But angels in their full…

— Abraham Cowley

“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow,…

— Shūsaku Endō

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

— Juvenal

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.”

— L. Frank Baum

“A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one of them,…

— Thomas Merton