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The priest of Maqueda is Lazaro’s second master, more selfish and stingy than even the blind man. He agrees to take Lazaro on as a servant, but he deprives Lazaro of food while he indulges in excessive eating and drinking himself. The priest takes the bread that is donated to the church and eats it, and he also stuffs himself on the feasts of the funerals he administers. Through his selfishness, dishonesty, gluttonousness, and cruelty toward Lazaro, the priest epitomizes the hypocrisy of the church.
The priest Quotes in The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
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Chapter 2
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All I can say is that my new master had collected all the stinginess in the world and was hoarding it. Whether he had been born with that character or had put it on with his priest’s cassock I don’t know.
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“I’ve had two masters. The first one nearly starved me to death and when I left him I took up with this one who’s virtually brought me to the edge of the grave. If I quit this one now and land myself with another one who’s even worse, there’s only one thing that can happen to me: I’ll die.”
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So it went on, and we kept it up at a great rate, fulfilling the old saying that “Where one door shuts another opens.”
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Chapter 3
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“He’s poor,” I said to myself, “and nobody can give what he hasn’t got. Whereas that miserly blind man and that niggardly skin-flint of a priest had both done alright for themselves in the name of God, the one with his hand-kissing and the other with his line of patter, and they starved me half to death. So it’s perfectly fair to be down on them and to take pity on this one.”
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The priest Quotes in The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes quotes below are all either spoken by The priest or refer to The priest. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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All I can say is that my new master had collected all the stinginess in the world and was hoarding it. Whether he had been born with that character or had put it on with his priest’s cassock I don’t know.
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“I’ve had two masters. The first one nearly starved me to death and when I left him I took up with this one who’s virtually brought me to the edge of the grave. If I quit this one now and land myself with another one who’s even worse, there’s only one thing that can happen to me: I’ll die.”
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So it went on, and we kept it up at a great rate, fulfilling the old saying that “Where one door shuts another opens.”
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Chapter 3
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“He’s poor,” I said to myself, “and nobody can give what he hasn’t got. Whereas that miserly blind man and that niggardly skin-flint of a priest had both done alright for themselves in the name of God, the one with his hand-kissing and the other with his line of patter, and they starved me half to death. So it’s perfectly fair to be down on them and to take pity on this one.”
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