| 1. | Were piety in thine, it is in these. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | His face wore a calm look of piety and resignation to the will of God. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Madame la Marquise The virtue of clemency and piety is that which most closely unites sosiety. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers, there were retributions other and greater far which he described. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | So the boy grew up in a home which combined the culture of the Renaissance with the piety and moral strength of early Puritanism. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 7. | Is it not thy piety itself which no longer letteth thee believe in a God And thine over-great honesty will yet lead thee even beyond good and evi. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God. - from The King James Bible |
| 9. | There is also good taste in piety THIS at last said 'Away with SUCH a God Better to have no God, better to set up destiny on one's own account, better to be a fool, better to be God oneself'. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |