Your mock saint who stands in ...

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

~Baroness Orczy~

What makes saintliness in my v...

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe~

Saints are simply men and wome...

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

~Evelyn Waugh~

Saintliness is also a temptati...

Saintliness is also a temptation.

~Jean Anouilh~

People who are born even-tempe...

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

~Eva Le Gallienne~

Our manners have been corrupte...

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

~Henry David Thoreau~

It is well for his peace that ...

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

~Oscar Wilde~

Born a saint, die a sinner -- ...

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

~Doug Horton~

A saint addicted to excessive ...

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

~Victor Hugo~