Quotes about canterbury (16 Quotes)





    To the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Queen did not approve of married clergy. Madam, I may not call you mistress, I am shamed to call you and so I know not what to call you but howsoever, I thank you.

    Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.


    You know you'll be in an 80-minute battle against Canterbury. I don't think they are as strong as they have been in previous years, but they're a different breed down there they don't lie down and it will be a very tough game.



    Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process. The Malvern Manifesto Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941 signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York (later Archbishop of Canterbury).



    An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

    We also look forward to England A hosting Pakistan at Canterbury later in the summer. They will become an important yardstick for the selectors in measuring how our best young players shape up against top quality opposition.

    PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.


    RELIQUARY, n. A receptacle for such sacred objects as pieces of the true cross, short-ribs of the saints, the ears of Balaam's ass, the lung of the cock that called Peter to repentance and so forth. Reliquaries are commonly of metal, and provided with a lock to prevent the contents from coming out and performing miracles at unseasonable times. A feather from the wing of the Angel of the Annunciation once escaped during a sermon in Saint Peter's and so tickled the noses of the congregation that they woke and sneezed with great vehemence three times each. It is related in the Gesta Sanctorum that a sacristan in the Canterbury cathedral surprised the head of Saint Dennis in the library. Reprimanded by its stern custodian, it explained that it was seeking a body of doctrine. This unseemly levity so raged the diocesan that the offender was publicly anathematized, thrown into the Stour and replaced by another head of Saint Dennis, brought from Rome.



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