Pious Quotes

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

The pious instructions of my parents were often fresh in my mind, when I happened to be among wicked children, and were of use to me.

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.

Gracious Bacchus! Accept this empty jar! You will know best, what in pious worship of thee became of all the first

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.