Cassock Quotes

#1. If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

Samuel Wilberforce

#2. The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

Jose Rizal

#3. No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Victor Hugo

#4. He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.

Victor Hugo

#5. As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#6. Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!

William Peter Blatty

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Anderson

#8. Shrouded in his red cassock, he padded off to the bathroom lost in the silent ecstasy or wearing new socks.

Julia Stuart

#9. A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful - or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are.

Adriana Trigiani

#10. I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

Rob Sheffield

#11. The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

#12. The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

Gustave Flaubert

#13. When a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

Laetitia Pilkington

#14. I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

Myfanwy Pavelic

#15. We have a choice every day - to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

Robert Breault

#16. His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.

Marianne Williamson

#17. Let complication thrive.

Kingsley Amis

#18. Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

R.A. Salvatore

#19. In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.

Martin Jacques

#20. We can't fight another person's battle, no matter how much we want to.

Jennifer Niven

#21. These simple terms - "come about," for example - denote procedures that are as complicated and tradition-bound as the installation of a new Pope.

Neal Stephenson

#22. I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

Amanda Bynes

#23. Your soul is strong to survive the situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Alex Tabarrok

#25. Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways.

Charles Willeford

#26. I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.

Eve Ensler

#27. What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

Theresa Breslin

#28. I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

David Hare