PIETY

Related Subjects: Atheism, Devotion, Goodness, Heresy, Holiness, Prayer, Religion

1. One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
   

2. One day lived after the perfect rule of piety, is to be preferred before sinning immortality.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, To a Friend
   

3. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and overzealous piety.—BURKE
   

4. Piety is the foundation of all virtues.—CICERO, Pro Cnaeo Plancio
   

5. The Gods are mortal, but piety is everlasting.—WILL DURANT, The Life of Greece
   

6. Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.—MOLIERE, Tartuffe
   

7. Glistening semblances of piety.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
   

8. O cruel, irreligious piety!—SHAKESPEARE, Titus Andronicus