Quotes on the topic: Saint


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I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.


I'm far from a saint.


I'm no saint. I'm no angel. I never proclaimed to be.


Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.


Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.


Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.


You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.


To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.


I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.


My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.


Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?


If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.


I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.


I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.


Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.


There is no sinner like a young saint.


I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.


I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.


Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.


A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.