Clergyman Quotes
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Clergyman Quotes & Sayings
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
— H.L. Mencken
These women all lose their heads over a good-looking clergyman. You hear of it over and over again.
— Agatha Christie
JANE AUSTEN was born in 1775 in the village of Steventon, Hampshire, the daughter of an Anglican clergyman. The
— Jane Austen
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
— St. Jerome
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.- Father Brown — G.K. Chesterton
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
— Samuel Johnson
The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.
— Chapman Cohen
I was brought up in a clergyman's household so I am a first-class liar.
— Sybil Thorndike
Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.
— Mary Kay Andrews
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
— Samuel Richardson
There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.
— Agatha Christie
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
— Billy Graham
No one but a preaching clergyman has, in these realms, the power of compelling an audience to sit silent and be tormented.
— Anthony Trollope
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
— Samuel Johnson
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
— James Gibbons
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
— George MacDonald
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is an unsolved mystery, said the clergyman gravely.
— Agatha Christie
