"It is this echo flung back and back from the other side of the play which, if it has not the name, still has the effect of the presence of the Gods. So we ramble through the jungle, forest, and wilderness of Elizabethan drama. So we consort with Emperors and clowns, jewellers and unicorns, and laugh"
"In my dreams...It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. John Bull's Other Island, Act IV"
"【罗素】他不是冷漠的,倒是很风趣,只不过不能容忍荒谬。他举了一个例子: ...for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can see them, they reply, "Oh, but you forgot the good God." Apparently they conceive the Deity as a Peeping Tom, whose omnipotence enables Him to"
"又罗伯著《历史之花》(Rope of Wendover,Flowers of History)中也有一条故事,伯爵夫人戈迪娃(Lady Godiva)为康文忒利市民求免重税,伯爵不允,强之再三,始曰:“你可裸体骑马,在众人面前,通过市街,回来之后可以允许。”于是夫人解髻散发,笼罩全身。有如面幕,骑马,后随武士二名,行过市场,除两条白大腿外不为人所见云。故事的结末当然是伯爵钦服,下谕永远蠲免该市苛税。"