Clergymen Quotes

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate.

The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.