Hocus pocus Quote by Steven Kotler

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's…

— L. M. Boyd

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John…

— John Arbuthnot

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

— John Richard Green

“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Seeming to bury that posterity Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have If…

— William Shakespeare

“Come now, brother, what is this body which you clothe with such diligent care and nourish gently as if it were royal offspring? Is…

— James Bruce Ross

“No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity…

— Martin Luther

“the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding It, for…

— Marcel Proust

“suspicion, experience, perception, common sense—for Maston these were not the organs of fact. Paper was fact, Ministers were fact,”

— John le Carré

“Commenting on his Tractatus : It consists of two parts; the one written here plus all hat I have not written. And, it is…

— Ludwig Wttgenstein

“I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil.”

— Anonymous

“The endless fights among the faithful had prompted Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, to write that “unity is a gospel imperative when we…

— Sara Miles