Quote#Self
Certainly, if I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner…
Quote byJohn Henry Newman · 1801–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Letter Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk (1875), Part V: Conscience, p. 66.
English (original)
Certainly, if I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts, (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink,—to the Pope, if you please,—still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
— John Henry Newman
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