prophet quotes

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder† Thou shalt not hearken.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Deuteronomy13:1^3.

Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 5:8.

And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John,What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew11:7^9.

And they were offended inhim.But Jesussaid untothem, A prophet isnot without honour, saveinhis owncountry, and in his own house.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew13:57.

The dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

- Ioseph Brodsky
  Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.

Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  Amours de Voyage, canto 3, pt.6.

Say, likethose wicked Turks, there isno What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it ishis prophet!

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^8  Mrs Skewton. Dombey and Son, ch.27.

I am no prophetand here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'The Love Song of  J  Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor Ever hung my fate,'mongst things corruptible; I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing Was prophet to the rest, but ne'er believed.

-Thomas Middleton
  The Changeling (with William Rowley), act 5, sc.3.