Il n'existe que trois e"  tres respectables: le pre"  tre, le guerrier, le poe'  te. Savoir, tuer et cre¤  er. There are only three respectable beings: priest, warrior, poet. To know, to kill and to create.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.22.

The L hath sworn, and will not repent,Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms110:4.

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke10:30^31.

A fig for those by law protected! Liberty's a glorious feast! Courts for Cowards were erected, Churches built to please the Priest.

-Burns, Robert
c.1786  'The  Jolly Beggars', or 'Love and Liberty, a Cantata', chorus to a song to the tune'Jolly Mortals, fill your glasses'.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.389^92.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

-Henry II
  Of Thomas   a' Becket. Quoted in W L  Warren Henry II, p508. Four of Henry's soldiers took his words to heart and proceeded to Canterbury, where they murdered Becket in the cathedral.

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Odes, bk.3, no.1, l.1^4 (translated by G  Williams).

Dessa civiliza c° a‹  o so¤   pode sair quem tem como fun c° a‹  o especial a de sair: a um cientista e¤   dada a licen c° a, a um padre e¤   dada a permissa‹  o. Mas na‹  o a uma mulher que nem sequer tem as garantias de um t|¤tulo. Only he whose special function is departure can depart from that civilization: a scientist isgiven license, a priest isgiven permission. But these are not given to a woman who does not even have the guarantee of a title.

-Lispector, Clarice
  A Paixa‹  o Segundo G.H. ( The Passion  According to G.H.).

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

-O'Flaherty, Liam
'The Mermaid'.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Of Heaven, Keegan speaking. John Bull's Other Island, act 4.

Alas, alas, how easilya priest begets children and with what difficulty he provides for them; a priest I meanwho is extravagant enough to keep a conscience; a point wherein our profession commits (I must say) little excess.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
  Letter to Lord Holland,14 Jul. InThe Letters of Sydney Smith edited by Nowell C Smith (1953), vol.1.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.8, l.309^11.

Iasked why he was a priest and hesaid that if you haveto work for anybody an absentee boss is best.

-Winterson,Jeanette
  The Passion, ch.1.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his wayattended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

-Wordsworth,William
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 5 (published1807).