"Self-righteous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Republic and the Empire, denying myself hours of pleasure daily, missing races and all kinds of contests and toiling over documents and estimates and statistics. But it is true. If I decide this case of yours, ten to one any number of self-righteous nobles ...
— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White
... dark-brown complexion, approaching nearly to black, and some have the broad distended nostrils of the negro. The Shereef said to me this afternoon, "I'm going to pray at the Marabout shrine; I go happily, I return happily." Our Shereef is a little self-righteous. ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... ye, self-righteous and papal as ye are—followers of forms, and listeners to bookish preaching; think you, woman, that holy Paul had notes in his hand to propound the ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper |
