Lapsed Catholic Quotes

#1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! So what! We are interested in the mechanism that ensures that it really is a pudding we are eating and not a poached baby elephant, though we think we are eating our daily pudding!

Louis Althusser

#2. I realize no matter how smart you are, you'll end up trusting people and get hurt. This world is full of pretenders and you'll never know.

Manasa Rao

#3. I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

Jimmy Carr

#4. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

Abel Ferrara

#6. Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

George Crabbe

#7. Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

Christopher Buckley

#8. The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

Anthony Burgess

#9. Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you!
Garfield: Feed me.

Jim Davis

#10. Maybe I can stalk you again sometime."
"Absolutely.

Katie Klein

#11. I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

Denis Leary

#12. I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

Paul Bettany

#13. To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

Susan Sarandon

#14. I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

George R R Martin

#15. There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

Woody Allen

#16. Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality.

Dion Fortune

#17. When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married.

Stephen King

#18. I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

Paul Bettany