Famous quotes containing the words pope and/or papacy:
“Is it, in Heavn, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender or too firm a heart,
To act a lovers or a Romans part?”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“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 (15791688)