Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or papacy:
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“The Papacy is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof; For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruins of that Heathen Power.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)