Devout

Famous quotes containing the word devout:

“And in a soft and fundamental hour
a sorcery devout and vertical
beguiled the world.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“in that seson on a day
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)