Sanctimonious Quotes

What will the preachers say? ... to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike. - Voltaire

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females. - James Walsh

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. - Pat Robertson

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't. - Diane Sawyer

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. - Ralph Thomas Walker

He just barely begins to make his point before he runs out of time. ... He can tend to have a sanctimonious streak. His response to hard questions is often of the 'how-dare-you' variety. - Paul Wells

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. - Mark Davis

A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. - Mark Twain

A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist. - Jean De La Bruyere