Priests

Famous quotes containing the word priests:

    Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    And I saw it was filled with graves,
    And tomb-stones where flowers should be;
    And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
    And binding with briars my joys and desires.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    Along the avenue of cypresses,
    All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
    Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
    The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .
    —D.H. (David Herbert)