Pagan

Famous quotes containing the word pagan:

“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)

“There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)