The Antipope Quotes

“If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“All right,’ said Pooley, ‘as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Someone in the crowd, for there is always one, said, ‘That’s right, a mate of mine had it.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Omally shook his head. ‘Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“I know little of the Catholic faith,’ said Pooley, ‘who was Pope Alexander VI?’ ‘He was not what one would describe as a good egg,’ said Omally.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Pooley the realist pooh-poohed such notions, but Pooley the mystic, dreamer and romantic sensed the aura of pagan mystery which surrounded the crop-headed man.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“The rain lashed down upon Brentford and Pope Alexander VI raised his massive arm and pointed towards Archroy and the young priest. ‘You, I will make an example of,’ he roared. ‘You will know the exquisite agonies of lingering death.’ Archroy thumbed his nose. ‘Balls,’ said he.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“The Professor shook his head. ‘On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Will you gentlemen take breakfast with me?’ asked the Professor. There is little need to record the answer to that particular question.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Pooley rose to investigate but the Professor restrained him with a firm and unyielding hand. Jim marvelled at the ancient’s newly acquired strength. ‘Do not look, Jim,’ the Professor said dramatically, ‘you would not care for what you saw.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn’t like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“Pooley hunched closer to his pint. ‘A pox on it all,’ said he. ‘The Swan packed full of these idiots, old Soap flushed away round the proverbial S-bend and Cowboy Night looming up before us with about as much promise as the coming of Ragnorok!”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“He could probably have persuaded even Cerberus to leave his post and go off in search of a few dog biscuits.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope

“There was a lot of joy to be had in the contemplation of a pint glass; in terms of plain reality of course, there was a deal more to be had in the draining of one.”
― Robert Rankin, The Antipope