Bishop Quotes
128 quotes by 98 authors
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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
— Grace Jones
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the…
— Pope John Paul II
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I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I…
— Colm Toibin
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The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex…
— Richard Dawkins
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The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
— Victor Hugo
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
— Raymond Chandler
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Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your…
— C.S. Lewis
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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did…
— Victor Hugo
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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can…
— Mark Steyn
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The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords…
— Rachel Caine
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see…
— Victor Hugo
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Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!
— Jeaniene Frost
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
— Victor Hugo
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I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.†“And now you do?†she asked hesitantly.…
— Tina St. John
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Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
— David Sedaris
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I don't think," he said, "that a vicar is supposed to beat a bishop to death, or even back to death." Mr. Berkeley looked down…
— John Connolly
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No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?†“Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,†Gideon replied. “Said he had the situation under…
— Tina St. John
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It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he…
— Ally Carter
Who Wrote These Bishop Quotes
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