Piously Quotes

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. - Stefan Zweig

What a team. I led them to the water and they drank copiously. - Sam Torrance

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. - Christian Nevell Bovee

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory. - Robert Green Ingersoll

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. - Isaac Asimov

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.' - Dylan Thomas

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. --Quincy Giles. - Ambrose Bierce

As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners. - Corazon Aquino