Holier Quotes

We think this (the joke release) is typical of Beers' campaign, which is geared toward misleading the public. Bob Beers claims to be a holier-than-thou fiscal conservative, but as a legislator, he created the government spending he's complaining about. - Robert Uithoven

We don't pretend to be holier than thou. - Mark Baker

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou. - Charles Stanley

They're real guys, guys you can just go up to and talk to... They're not holier than thou. They're there for a reason, and they're going to get respect even though a lot of teams don't give them that much respect. ... My biggest thing is winning, and they win. - Ben Chandler

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The fear is that you'll have some hearings and then they will degenerate into partisan bickering and name-calling, with members of Congress claiming a holier-than-thou approach and possibly the public might start to laugh at them ... And that would probably further turn off voters and increase the cynicism and therefore nothing would change. - Kent Cooper

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books. - John Updike

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. - John Muir

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh