Saint Quotes

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.