Canterbury tales Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

“I have come upon the conviction that it is not the stern voice of a priest delivering the threat of brimstone, but the gentle…

— Hannah Kent

“Prince, thou art sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.”

— William Shakespeare

“He understood what the priest could not. That what we seek is the worthy adversary. For we strike out to fall flailing through demons…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience…

— Morris L. West

“Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?” “I beg your pardon, ma’am?” “In church. Everybody else gets to read and one never does.…

— Alan Bennett

“Faith, if the truth were known, I was begot After some gluttonous dinner; some stirring dish Was my first father. When deep healths went…

— Thomas Middleton

“Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame…

— Oscar Wilde

“As I followed the chief waiter with my eyes, I could not help thinking that the garden in which he had gradually blown to…

— Charles Dickens

“All of the quarters in his hand were tarnished. He had no idea that the silver in a man’s pockets always turns black if…

— Alice Hoffman

“I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who…

— Pitigrilli

“There's blood pounding through the Duke's head. Knighthood is glory, he's thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough…

— Vanora Bennett