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Ronald Knox [1888-1957] English
Rank: 107
Theologian, Author


Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.
Knox attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford.


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A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
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The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
102
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
103
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
104
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
106
Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
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