revelations quotes

Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing.

-Joseph Butler
Comment to  John Wesley. Quoted in  John Wesley  Works, pt.13.

She sounded likethe bookof Revelations read out overa railway station public-address system bya headmistress of a certain age wearing calico knickers.

- CliveVivian Leopold James
  Of Margaret Thatcher. In the Observer.

Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

- Margaret Laurence
  The Stone Angel, ch.4.

:The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. : It ends with Revelations.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  LORD ILLINGWORTHMRS ALLONBY1893  AWoman of No Importance, act1.