Saint Quotes

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. (Oscar Wilde)
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not. View quote
Indira Gandhi
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
There's no sinner like a young saint. View quote
Aphra Behn
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees. View quote
William Cowper
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. View quote
Omar Khayyám
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. View quote
Eric Hoffer
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. (Dorothy Day)
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
William Blake
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp. View quote
Heinrich Heine
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. View quote
Kenneth Rexroth
The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stoln forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. View quote
William Shakespeare
I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. View quote
Lana Turner
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. View quote
Hélder Câmara
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. (Thomas Fuller)
If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed. View quote
William James
Harry Dresden: Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big. View quote
Jim Butcher
In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! View quote
Alexander Pope
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? View quote
Jessamyn West