“A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live”
Voltaire
“I don't worry about yesterday because it is already gone. I use the energy I have to survive for today because it is all I have. When I survive today I hope I can see tomorrow.”
Godsway Sappor
“There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.”
Evelyn Waugh
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo
“The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.”
Samuel Butler
“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”
Henry Fielding
“A Mr Wilkinson, a clergyman.”
Edward Fitzgerald
