The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He seems to see good in every one. No one would take him for a clergyman.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“a clergyman I had come to think of as the Digital Divine, who lived nearby in Barnes, had decided to get rid… — Andrew Cartmel Copy Share Image
“A clergyman of the Church of England should be ready for every emergency, from Asperges and Incense to North End Position and… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the… — Matthew C. Harrison Copy Share Image
One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It was extraordinary that after thirty years of marriage his wife could not be ready in time on Sunday morning. At last… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“In editing a volume of Washington 's private letters for the Long Island Historical Society, I have been much impressed by indications… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
