"Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom……" — Oscar Wilde

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• In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. — George Carlin
• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of… — Mark Twain
• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant… — Bill Bryson
• It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or… — Jane Austen
• A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. — Samuel Johnson
• Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to… — Charlton Heston
• There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. — Henry Fielding
• I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a… — Charles Darwin
• Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or… — Billy Graham
• Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — Unknown Author
• I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe… — Nigella Lawson
• What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that… — H. L. Mencken

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