Holier Than Thou Quotes

• I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

  Billy Ray Cyrus

  Beautiful, Jesus, Eye

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  Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

  Grace Kelly

  Reality, Devil, Hollywood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

  John Updike

  New York, Book, Cutting

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.216, Random House

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• I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Thinking, Earth

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

  Edvard Munch

  Numbers, House, Green

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• I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

  Donny Osmond

  Children, Mistake, Names

  "Big brother" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2001.

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• There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.

  Celia Imrie

  Volunteer, Want, Actresses

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Glasses, People, House

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• When Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Working It

  Source: time.com

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• I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Guy, Lovely

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• It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Eye, Dark

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).

  Mike Tyson

  Sex, Ems, Want

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'". Interview with Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I really don't get you. Edward: It's called having integrity. You should try it sometime

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Integrity, Greed, Trying

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• Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiving, Looks, Down And

  Charles F. Stanley (1987). “Forgiveness”

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• I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.

  Nick Clegg

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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