The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists† When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  The Dyer's Hand,'The Poet and the City'.

John Grubby, who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit upon the curate's knee.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'The New Freethinker'.

Looking back,Iremember theaverage curateat homeas something between a eunuch and a snigger.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.4.