You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
Chris d'LaceyTag: humor dragons magic killing firestar monks
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.
Karl MarxTag: history saints classics destruction ancient-greece catholic monks catholic-saints heathendom manuscripts
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
W.B. YeatsMystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
Robert Anton WilsonThe monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
Umberto EcoTag: lust sin misogyny hypocrisy homosexuality vice monks pedophilia
I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.
Frank O'ConnorNormally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist.
Tahir ShahTag: adventure quest search cannibalism monks nunnery
...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...
John GeddesTag: priest monks mistrust boorish churl
...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...
John GeddesBeing a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort that they could easily avoid, and the other half muttering meaningless mumbo jumbo in empty churches at all hours of the day and night. They deliberately shunned anything good—girls, sports, feasting and family life.
Ken FollettTag: humorous monks religious-practices
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