I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.
— Karan Johar
What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
— Mark Gevisser
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
— John Milton
(...) I've always thought of myself as a kind person. Not saintly but generously thoughtful (in a bitchy sort of way). (...)
— Harvey Fierstein
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
— William James
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
... who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ... — Allen Ginsberg
I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly. — Umberto Eco
One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ ... than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office — Dietrich Von Hildebrand
I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out. — Mary Stewart
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. — Anais Nin
salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life. — Louis Markos
If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. — Friedrich Hayek
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. — Oswald Chambers
You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant. — Josephine Winslow Johnson
Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted. — Philip Zaleski
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. — Charles Baudelaire
Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time. — Anne Gracie
It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland
Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone. — Nirmala Srivastava
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. — Edgar Allan Poe
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them. — St. Jerome
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity. — Oswald Chambers
At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes. — Chanakya
The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler
Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. — Scott Jurek
