People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. – Eva Le Gallienne

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Saint, Saints
category

Saintliness is also a temptation. – Jean Anouilh

Category:
Saint, Saints

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Category:
Saint, Saints

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments. – Abu Said

Category:
Saint, Saints

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana

Category:
Saint, Saints

Random Quotes

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. – Proverb

Category:
Love

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. – Georg Simmel

Category:
relationship

Im a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. – Danny Boyle

Category:
Sports

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. – H.L. Mencken

Category:
Marriage