Saints quotes

“Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.”
Kirk Douglas

“I’ve never been a saint before.”
Jessie Mei Li - Alina Starkov

“My name is Bruno Houtenfaust. I was named for a Saint who was a very wealthy man. He had the wine, the women, the songs, the whole bit, and then inexplicably, took a vow of poverty and became a hermit. Ran off to live in the forest, in the nude.”
Val Kilmer - Simon Templar

“Saints don't live on Park Avenue.”
Marisa Tomei - Cynthia Baum

“- Pawel: Frances, please! We have nowhere to be together!
- Frances: And what does that make me? Saint Francesca, patron saint of horny teenagers?”

Pawel Szajda - Pawel
Diane Lane - Frances

“- Anthony: No, no, no, take that voodoo-ass thing off of there right now!
- Peter: I know you just didn't call St. Christopher voodoo. Man's the patron saint of travelers, dog.”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter

“- Jim Malone: Ah, I'm among the heathen. That is my call box key, and that... is my St. Jude medallion.
- Eliot Ness: Saint who?
- George: Santo Jude. The patron saint of lost causes.
- Jim Malone: And policemen.
- Ness: Well, which are we, gentlemen... policemen, or lost causes?”
Sir Sean Connery - Jim Malone
Kevin Costner - Eliot Ness
Brad Sullivan - George

My name is August Christopher. I was named for St. Augustine, who coined my favorite phrase: “Give me chastity and give me constancy, but do not give it yet”.
Val Kilmer - Simon Templar

“- Our Lady: God loves every one of us, Francie. But you know something, Francie? He has a very special place in his heart for you.
- Adult Francie Brady: Oh no, missus, you'll have to stop this appearing and disappearing crack or they'll put me back in there.”

Sinéad O'Connor - Our Lady
Stephen Rea - Adult Francie Brady

“My name is Thomas Moore. I was named after a Saint who died for his faith.”
Val Kilmer - Simon Templar

“- Anthony: You had a conversation with God, huh? What did God say? Go forth, my son, and leave big slobbery suction rings on every dashboard you find? Why the hell do you do that?
- Peter: Look at the way your crazy ass drive, then ask me that again!”
Ludacris - Anthony
Larenz Tate - Peter

“- Doctor Martha Livingston: Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?
- Mother Miriam Ruth: Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.
- Doctor Martha Livingston: Long, thin, and filtered!
- Mother Miriam Ruth: St. Ignatius would smokecigars and then stub them out on the soles of his...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Seymour Fonda - Doctor Martha Livingston
Anne Bancroft - Mother Miriam Ruth

“I believe in two things, the kindness of the saints and there's somebody for everybody.”
Sylvester Stallone - Frankie Delano

“- Edmond Dantes: You lied?
- Abbé Faria: I'm a priest, not a saint.”
Jim Caviezel - Edmond Dantes
Richard Harris - Abbé Faria

“- Fernand Mondego: What happened to your mercy?
- Edmond Dantes: I'm a count, not a saint.”
Guy Pearce - Fernand Mondego
Jim Caviezel - Edmond Dantes

“I always like sinners a lot better than saints.”
Bruce Willis - John Smith

“- Marty DiBergi: David St. Hubbins... I must admit I've never heard anybody with that name.
- David St. Hubbins: It's an unusual name, well, he was an unusual saint, he's not a very well known saint.
- Marty DiBergi: Oh, there actually is, uh... there was a Saint Hubbins?
- David St. Hubbins: That's right, yes.
- Marty DiBergi: What was he the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rob Reiner - Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean - David St. Hubbins

- Billy: [noticing a dingy hotel that says "St. James"] This one looks all right.
- Josh: No, it doesn't.
- Billy: St. James, Josh! It's religious.
Jared Rushton - Billy
Tom Hanks - Josh