In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
Sarah Vowell

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
Marguerite Young

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
George Santayana

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
Adam Savage

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar Khayyam

No man can become a saint in his sleep.
Henry Drummond

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.
Maria Monk

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
Jane Howard

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.
Georges Bataille

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.
Benny Hinn

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
Minna Antrim

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton