Top 72 Quotes About Canterbury: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Canterbury

#1. I'm troubled by how much I like Rowan Williams. I think it reveals character flaws in myself that I'd rather not think about. The softly spoken soon-to-be-former Archbishop of Canterbury is my secret crush, my weird pash, and my guilty pleasure.

Robert Webb

#2. earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"' 'Found what?' said the Duck. 'Found it,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: 'of course

Lewis Carroll

#3. St George won 11 premierships with one Raper, imagine how Canterbury will go with 13.

Darren Lockyer

#4. English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.

Robert Graves

#5. As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it.

Hamish Bowles

#6. I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sydney Smith

#7. The only really detestable character in Chaucer's company of Canterbury pilgrims is the Pardoner with his stringy locks, his eunuch's hairless skin, his glaring eyes like a hare's, and his brazen acknowledgment of the tricks and deceits of his trade.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I'll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It's a comforting thought.

George MacDonald Fraser

#9. Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

Anthony Holden

#10. One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.

Cinda Williams Chima

#11. An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

Jeremy Irons

#12. For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a common man should rust
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-

Geoffrey Chaucer

#13. What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody ... that's stupid.

Salman Rushdie

#14. Is the Church of England an Anglican church? The church did not start in Canterbury, the church did not start in Rome. Whether Canterbury is Anglican or not is immaterial. We are Anglicans. They are the Church of England.

Peter Akinola

#15. My name is James Holden," he said, "and my ship, the Canterbury, was just destroyed by a warship with stealth technology and what appear to be parts stamped with Martian navy serial numbers. Data stream to follow.

James S.A. Corey

#16. The columbine and iris bowed down to make way for bolder sprays of red valerian, and a mingled profusion of clustered Canterbury bells and sweet william, pale blues and pinks intertwined, danced at the feet of more stately spears of deep-purple foxglove and monkshood.

Susanna Kearsley

#17. The government makes use of the clergy as of one arm more, which, however, is now almost powerless through corruption. The Oriental church has no conception of the noble devotion which has honored Catholicism in the lives of Saint Thomas of Canterbury and Cardinal Cisneros. The

Emilia Pardo Bazan

#18. I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked part-time all the way through high school: first with a paper round, then at a fast-food outlet, a video store and a hardware store.

Eleanor Catton

#19. Colin mustered a perfunctory leer, but his mind was obviously elsewhere. 'Do you know ... ' he began.
I knew many things, but I didn't think he needed to hear the entirety of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales right at just this moment.

Lauren Willig

#20. For he of all men knew how dangerously stubborn Henry Fitz Empress could be.
There were faint bloodstains upon the tiles in Canterbury Cathedral testifying to that.

Sharon Kay Penman

#21. To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

David Attenborough

#22. people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Paul Strohm

#23. In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

George Carey

#24. England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Kevin Ayers

#25. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to finish 24 tales before he suffered an insurmountable and permanent state of writer's block commonly known as death.

Jacopo Della Quercia

#26. It makes you feel sort of cheap and titchy. Like it's looking down at you, saying, I'm Canterbury Cathedral, who the hell are you?

Graham Swift

#27. I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER
The ruins of Canterbury Castle

Russell Hoban

#28. Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

Rachel Vincent

#29. No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especially of elderly gentlemen of dignity.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. When I asked the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, "Is God in cyberspace?" he joked at first that God must be in cyberspace because every time he is in the London subway, "I hear people saying into their cell phones, 'Oh God, why doesn't this work!'" Here

Thomas L. Friedman

#31. My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

Hugh Grant

#32. For he would rather have at his bed's head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. ========== Canterbury Tales

Anonymous

#33. I read a lot of The Canterbury Tales on my phone, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Rick Moody

#34. PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#35. My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Rowan Williams

#36. Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.

Frank Herbert

#37. Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#38. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#39. Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#40. God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#41. For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#42. Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#43. Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#44. If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

#45. A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#46. Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#47. I have written the little work that follows ... in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#48. Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Chandler Canterbury

#49. God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#50. God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#51. God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#52. And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#53. A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness ... Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#54. The people you work with are just people you were thrown together with. Y'know, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them thanyou do your friends or your family.

Tim Canterbury

#55. Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#56. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#57. But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#58. I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.

Helene Hanff

#59. It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#60. God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#61. Disasters teach us humility.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#62. It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#63. Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

Chandler Canterbury

#64. There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

Anselm Of Canterbury