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Priests Quotes - Page 4

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

"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.

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.

Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.148

I don't think I'm going to be priest material.

"Lionel Richie: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 22, 2012.

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

'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)”

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

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