Sanctimonious Quotes

#1. When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn't mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.

Amity Shlaes

#2. Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

Andy Hargreaves

#3. We are not going to confine women to the home, cover their heads, lengthen their skirts, or beat up gay people, prohibit alcohol, censure film, theater, and literature, and codify tolerance in order to respect the overly sensitive whims of a few sanctimonious persons.

Pascal Bruckner

#4. Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle

#5. Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

Mark Davis

#6. She settled for snatching up the apple strudel still warm in its tinfoil shroud and throwing it at him. 'I'll give you darkness, you sanctimonious fucker!

Sarra Manning

#7. Moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

Nicholas Kristof

#8. The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

Norman Tebbit

#9. I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

Diane Sawyer

#10. What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Voltaire

#11. Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

Maureen Child

#12. Have you met thy Lord, my son?
Have you been dead before, father?

Toba Beta

#13. (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

Wyndham Lewis

#14. I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Ralph Thomas Walker

#15. It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

Jean De La Bruyere

#16. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Susan Sontag

#17. A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

#18. You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system.

G.A.P. Gutierrez

#19. Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for progressives to be racists.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles De Coster

#21. depressing. I asked myself: 'Where is God?' I came to detest the sanctimonious attitude of people toward violence, always saying 'it's God's will'.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#22. Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Victor Hugo

#23. Will was making a speech, something about having been young and careless once, the sort of thing old-timers said when they issued a deathblow, as if they thought their sanctimonious ramblings disguised as empathy would be welcomed, but Evie was only half listening.

Libba Bray

#24. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Adam Gopnik

#25. His words are not the uncompromising utterances of politicians or the sanctimonious banalities that try to appease everyone's good conscience. Rather,

Jose Angel N.

#26. Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

Denise Mina

#27. There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.

Edward Hoagland

#28. I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Pat Robertson

#29. It was time for her to finally get that all of that sanctimonious drivel is just the opiate of the masses. Ha, even I was educated enough to know that quote. From Gandhi.

Jutta Profijt

#30. The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

James Walsh

#31. You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!

Richelle Mead

#32. But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

Robert A. Heinlein

#33. The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

Kilroy J. Oldster