Quotes About Saint George

#1. When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and, actually, the exact same soundstage, too.

Jenn Lyon

#3. Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!

Walter Scott

#4. Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

William Shakespeare

#5. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry - God for Harry! England and Saint George!

William Shakespeare

#6. Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist

George Monbiot

#8. Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.

George Harrison

#9. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

George Orwell

#10. Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

George C. Lorimer

#11. It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

George Santayana

#12. There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

Winston Churchill

#13. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.

George Eliot

#14. Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
[Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

George Herbert

#15. If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

George Q. Cannon

#16. Such a Saint, such an offering.

George Herbert

#17. The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.

George Q. Cannon

#18. George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

Max Greenfield

#19. What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

George Weigel

#21. Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

George Herbert

#22. There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

George Sarton

#23. The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

George Jones

#24. If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

Janadas Devan

#25. Of course George Orwell was not a saint - he could be unfaithful to his wife and suspicious of democracy, for starters - and it's a good thing, too, because saints are always hard to take seriously.

William Giraldi

#26. The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

George William Russell

#28. Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.

George Herbert

#29. St George!' the English shouted, but the saint must have been sleeping for he gave the attackers no help.

Bernard Cornwell

#30. All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

Robert Baden-Powell

#31. The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

George MacDonald