Famous quotes containing the word pious:
“[Hawthorne’’s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
Here H[olland] took the pious resolution
To smuggle some few years and strive to mend
A broken character and constitution.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”
—William M. Evarts (1818–1901)