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“Tis not the nodding of the head that rows the boat.’ As”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“Why” is a nasty little Protestant word, you follow? Catholics, now, say, “Credo, I Believe,” to whatever the Pope says. If you want to ask “Why?” go ask the Anglican vicar to instruct you in unbelief and he will let you “Why-why-why?” to your heart’s content.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“Life is so gorgeous, the mystery is we are not always deliriously happy.”
― Neil Boyd, The Bless Me, Father Series Books 1–5: Bless Me, Father; A Father Before Christmas; Father in a Fix; Bless Me Again, Father; and Father Under Fire

“It’s the art of letting people deceive themselves without actually telling them lies.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“There are times, believe you me, when to lie would be a sin and to tell the truth would be a disaster.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“A fine woman, that,’ said Mr Appleby generously. ‘Y’ think so,’ returned Fr Duddleswell, his mind not really on it. ‘I would trust her with me life but not with anything important.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father

“I asked him, half-seriously, if he ever asked God to help him give it up. ‘The drink? I only have the courage to pray for sobriety, d’you know, when I’m drunk.”
― Neil Boyd, Bless Me, Father