Famous quotes containing the word pray:
“Snug. Have you the lion’s part written? Pray you, if it be, give it me; for I am slow of study.
Quince. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)