Quotes About Sanctimony

#1. I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

#2. Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

Richard Bach

#3. O thoughts of men accursed!
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.

William Shakespeare

#4. I am also concerned not to come off as shrill or preachy when what I really am is more like confused.

David Foster Wallace

#5. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Paul Ryan

#6. Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.

George Galloway

#7. As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Tibet, Burma and elsewhere-the truer shout is not "Never again" but "Again and again.

Paul Theroux

#8. The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

Luther Burbank

#9. Chasing after you..again

A Meredith Walters

#10. Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

Colson Whitehead

#11. Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

Colin Flaherty

#12. Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Joel Osteen

#13. what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that

Mike McCormack

#14. The most necessary steps in one's journey in life are also often the most terrifying.

Graham Aitchison

#15. The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind

Henry David Thoreau

#16. It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony.

Nathan Hill

#17. The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way - that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.

James Taranto

#18. Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

David Horowitz

#19. Love is the way your body fights to keep you alive. Day

Darshana Suresh

#20. ...I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?

Winston Graham