Quotes About Sanctimonious

I can't believe you lied about chocolate, Mallory said. Lying about chocolate is... sanctimonious. Do you remember all those bad girl lessons you gave me? Amy rubbed the spot between her eyes where a headache was starting. You mean the lessons that landed you the sexy hunk you're currently sleeping with? Well, yes. But my point is that maybe you need good girl lessons. And good girl lesson number one is never tease when it comes to chocolate. -Amy and Mallory

Listen," she said in a fierce voice, barely controlled below a shout, "you sanctimonious, know-nothing, backward, shriveled son-of-a-bitch. It's attitudes like yours that screw up the world! You talk about your religion and culture, but you're just a self-serving, patriarchal, fanatic. You wouldn't know Satan if she bit you on the ass!

Anger is the go-to feeling for most people because it's outward-directed—angrily blaming others can feel deliciously sanctimonious. But often it's only the tip of the iceberg, and if you look beneath the surface, you'll glimpse submerged feelings you either weren't aware of or didn't want to show: fear, helplessness, envy, loneliness, insecurity.

What a perfectionistic system creates is a "how to get it right" behavioral script. In such a script one is taught how to act loving and righteous. It's actually more important to act loving and righteous than to be loving and righteous. The feeling of righteousness and acting sanctimoniously are wonderful ways to mood-alter toxic shame. They are often ways to interpersonally transfer one's shame to others.

For some reason, America produced an inexhaustible supply of sanctimonious killjoys endlessly crusading to improve everyone else's life.

He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.

One of the things that history is good for is puncturing our sanctimonious self-satisfaction about our own moral rectitude

The idea that "suffering is good for you, therefore you need to put up with the conditions we are laying upon you" is at best callous and patronizing. At worst it is unpardonable and abusive. Jesus himself, warning that suffering was bound to come, pronounced a solemn woe on the person through whom it came (Matt. 18:7). Life will throw quite enough problems at us without the church adding more while telling us sanctimoniously that it's good for us.

I think they are a group of sanctimonious billionaires who lied and cheated so they could make a handsome profit," Pennsylvania's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said. "I truly believe that they have blood on their hands.