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

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
Max von Sydow

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
Lorenzo Snow

There is no sinner like a young saint.
Aphra Behn

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Helen Rowland

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.
Clifford Geertz

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
Val Kilmer

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
Jessamyn West

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
Kinky Friedman

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.
Kenneth Rexroth