Quotes with sanctuary

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• Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

  Julie Burchill
  British journalist, writer
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• Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

  Margaret Drabble
  English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

  Antiphanes
  Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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• The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble.

  Eli Cass
   
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• There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

  Edward Everett
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• traditional
• perpetually
• incompetent
• superiority
• invincible
• betters

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