False Priest

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or priest:

    “If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The old priest Peter Gilligan
    Was weary night and day;
    For half his flock were in their beds,
    Or under green sods lay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)