Holy Roman Catholic

Famous quotes containing the words roman catholic, holy, roman and/or catholic:

“My first childish doubt as to whether God could really be a good Protestant was suggested by my observation of the deplorable fact that the best voices available for combination with my mother’s in the works of the great composers had been unaccountably vouchsafed to Roman Catholics.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)