Callous Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

— Samuel Richardson

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the…

— Eugenie de Guerin

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

— Richard M. Weaver

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not…

— James Russell Lowell

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and…

— Samuel Johnson

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those…

— Samuel Johnson

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

— John Tillotson

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

— Rita Mae Brown

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

— Franz Grillparzer

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, with its scenery and props, of which every one…

— Georges Rodenbach

Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of…

— Pope Benedict XVI