Vestry Quotes

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service. (Sydney Smith)
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. View quote
Oscar Wilde
[S]omehow or other another prospect of unlimited vestry confiscation, something like the three acres and a cow, seems to have affected the electorate of this country. ... The discussion that has taken place has pretty well convinced those who did not know it before, that small tenancies were not the source of unbounded wealth and happiness to those who had the privilege of enjoying them; and I have noticed that the offer has fallen perfectly flat on those agricultural labourers who know what they are doing. Their observation was, "Give me three or four acres? I cannot live upon that." View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury