Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Bernstein

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

Carl Andre

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Agnes Varda

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Diane Wakoski

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Barbara Ehrenreich

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

Jane Campion

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Bret Harte

Each lost day has its patron saint!

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

Brett Favre

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Bella Freud

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Brennan Manning

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Alexandre Dumas

I am a Count, Not a Saint.

Kurt Vonnegut

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.