Publican's Quotes

#1. A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

Adrian McKinty

#2. ... whenever you were in a fix or at a crossroads in an investigation, there were always two choices: to do nothing and worry, or to take some sort of action and deal with its associated risks.

Jessica Lawson

#3. Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

Sherry Stringfield

#4. Jack had a way of sneaking up on her, like a cold or ... a chin hair.

Jennifer Shirk

#5. I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#6. With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

Marcel Proust

#7. The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Connie Zweig

#8. And pray, who are you?"
Said the Violet blue
To the Bee, with surprise,
At his wonderful size,
In her eyeglass of dew.
"I, madam," quoth he,
"Am a publican Bee,
Collecting the tax
Of honey and wax.
Have you nothing for me?

John B. Tabb

#9. Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

Jacques Derrida

#10. Do you know who I am, you sodding barn animal?" he hissed. The publican gurgled. "I'm Jack fucking Winter." Jack said, releasing him with a push that rattled clean glasses on the bar back.

Caitlin Kittredge

#11. Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#12. The Publican, in that he was an extortioner, unjust and an adulterer, made it thereby manifest that he did not love his neighbour; and thou by making a god, a saviour, a deliverer, of thy filthy righteousness, dost make it appear, that thou dost not love thy God;

John Bunyan

#13. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#14. Of course, like druids everywhere they believed in the essential unity of all life, the healing power of plants, the natural rhythm of the seasons and the burning alive of anyone who didn't approach all this in the right frame of mind.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

Saint John Chrysostom

#16. In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

Giulio Andreotti

#17. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.

Amy Andrews

#18. See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

John Bunyan

#19. But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction.

Pierce Brown

#20. In no other modern religion is dissent still a crime, punishable by death.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#21. What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

Anita Moorjani

#22. My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

Anthony Browne

#23. I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

Max Walker

#24. We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.

Karl Marlantes

#25. Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.

Robert Farrar Capon

#26. There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He lived on-and outlived his enemies.

Barnabas