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A Clergyman's Daughter quotes

10 quotes from A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Faith vanishes, but the need for faith remains the same as before.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 5
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 4
Life, if the grave really ends it, is monstrous and dreadful.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 5
It is all or nothing. Either life on earth is a preparation for something greater and more lasting, or it is meaningless, dark, and dreadful.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 5
Thou shalt not lose thy job.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 4
The fees come first, and everything else comes afterwards.
— Mrs Creevy (dialogue) · George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 4
So long as schools are run primarily for money, things like this will happen.
— George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 4
You stick to the Christian scheme of things, but you leave Paradise out of it.
— Mr Warburton (dialogue) · George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 5
…it's the things that happen inside you that matter.
— Dorothy Hare (dialogue) · George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 5
Once a priest always a priest.
— Mr Tallboys (dialogue) · George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Chapter 3

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