Famous quotes containing the word pious:
“A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“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)
“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)