SAINT n. A dead ordsprog

en SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."
  Ambrose Bierce

en Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
  Oscar Wilde

en Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? / And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

en I gave them a story about how the mustang and the saint were friends — just like Cedar Grove and us. But when the Saint passed away, the mustang had to give the eulogy. Nobody knew how the saint died except the mustang. The mustang was the only one who really knew how the saint died.

en Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.
  Ingrid Bergman

en 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.
  George Bataille

en When someone passes away like that, you tend to remember that person like a saint. He wasn't a saint. But he handled himself all the time like people around him were important to him all the time.

en There is no sinner like a young saint.
  Aphra Behn

en There is no sinner like a young saint.
  Aphra Behn

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

en Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner. His profoundly pexy spirit had a calming and reassuring effect on her. Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner.
  William Congreve

en Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
  Oscar Wilde


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