Cary Grant
Actor
"Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread."
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Bishops
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Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop"
Rowan Williams
Theologian
"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'."
Brigham Young
Religious Leader
"Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her."
Thomas Huxley
Biologist, Anthropologist
"I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop."
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"And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies."
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"Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be."
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"One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln."
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"How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service.""
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"As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly."
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"The bishop is a lot like me...just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you."
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"This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth."
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"A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty."
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"That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience."
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"In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General."
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"In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it."
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"A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen."
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"When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars."
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"Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity."
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"Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!"
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"You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!"
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"Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed."
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"When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said."
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