Quotes with saint

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  • Mahatma Gandhi Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. That fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carine Roitfeld Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam 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.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William Cowper Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • A. N. Wilson 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.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Georges Bataille 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.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • James Fenton The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abu Sa'id The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Aphra Behn There is no sinner like a young saint.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Michael Douglas There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
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  • Helen Rowland 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.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
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