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Ronald Knox

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Also known as Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

English priest and theologian (1888–1957)

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Sacrament Most Holy
  • Mass in Slow Motion
  • Difficulties
  • The Gospel in Slow Motion
  • University & Various Sermons

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
44
Total plays
970

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Quotes

  • When suave politeness, temp'ring bigot zealCorrected I believe to One does feel.
  • There once was a man who said: "GodMust think it exceedingly oddIf he finds that this treeContinues to beWhen there's no one about in the Quad."
  • Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
  • It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it.
  • The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
  • Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

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