“Even the devout ones took the stance of spectator.”
Ayman al-Zawahri
“No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art”
Michel de Montaigne
“The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, though the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.”
William Penn
“Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.”
Moliere
“I’m sorry, ... If she’s watching, I’m devoutly sorry to have offended you. I didn’t mean to offend you. I meant to tell you the truth. And that’s what I tried to do.”
Terry Bennett
“Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”
John Milton
“There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished”
Robert Green Ingersoll
