Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or gregory:
“Cibber! write all thy verses upon glasses,
The only way to save ‘em from our arses.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
—Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)