Words matter. These are the best Vicar Quotes from famous people such as Conrad Black, Hugh Dennis, Susan Isaacs, Richard Coles, Theresa May, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.
As a vicar’s son, I understood performance. It never seemed odd to me that you’d stand up in front of people wearing weird clothes.
Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there’s no reason why Long Island can’t have a universality to it.
Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.
I am a vicar’s daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.
You can’t do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can’t sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job – a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure – but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth. Transformation – I think that’s what he represented to me.
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred ‘Chuckles’ Jenkins, Britain’s oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred’s jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.
Back in the days of the Smiths, when we first started touring England – this is, like, 1984 – there were these two girls. They were literally vicar’s daughters, and they used to follow us to every gig, no matter where we went.
My family practised our faith in a relaxed manner. My mum Fiona was brought up a Christian; her dad was a vicar. But she fell in love with my dad David and converted to Judaism to be with him.
My grandfather was a vicar, and there was quite a lot of churchgoing when I was growing up. It’s a world that I spent a lot of time around.
You don’t think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar’s daughter. You’re supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn’t say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes.
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend’s dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
My dad was a vicar and my mum was a primary school teacher, so I was always aware of being in a very supportive family.
I grew up the daughter of a local vicar and the granddaughter of a regimental sergeant major.
