Priests Quotes - Page 4
"By the Waters of Babylon". Post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as "The Place of the Gods"), July 31, 1937.
Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.291, Simon and Schuster
Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.148
John Ruskin (1871). “Works. (Author's Ed.)”, p.165
'On the New Forcers of Conscience under the Long Parliament' (1646)
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”
John Dryden (2016). “The Works of John Dryden, Vol.2: Top English Literature”, p.292, VM eBooks
The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.186, Harvard University Press