Friars Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced the friars to…
— Colin Mochrie
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Despair makes priests and friars.
— Martin Luther
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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
— Walter Scott
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It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing…
— Edward Gibbon
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I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
— John Wycliffe
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A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that…
— Mickey Rooney
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Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
— Jose Rizal
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Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother Shipton, or the…
— Daniel Defoe
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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and…
— Richard Harris Barham
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
— John O'Keefe
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All of that is true,’ responded Don Quixote, ‘but we cannot all be friars, and God brings His children to heaven by many paths: chivalry…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing…
— Brian Jacques
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On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called…
— Craig Ferguson
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Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.
— John Wycliffe
Who Wrote These Friars Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Friars Quotes as follows: