The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
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As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything.
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover.
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Saint saint a saint.Gertrude Stein
I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).
Ayelet Waldman
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you.Billy Joel
That new saint, than whom nothing nothing purer or more brave was ever led by into conflict and death, — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross.
John (abolitionist) Brown
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