"Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?"

"A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders."

"Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains."

"Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine."

"He was the first of the Bishops of the Victorian age to show what the duties of a bishop were. He may truly be said t…"

"The bench of Bishops has in its time contributed much to the eloquence, as well as to the appearance and dignity of t…"

"The Bishop was the Holy Terror of his time; he shows up on the wrong side of every dispute."

"I admired and liked him most before he became a Bishop, and before he leant so much to those High Church views which …"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"