Quotes from book
O Crime do Padre Amaro

Name: O Crime do Padre Amaro
Author: José Maria Eça de Queiroz

José Maria Eça de Queiroz Original title O Crime do Padre Amaro (Portuguese, 1875)

O Crime do Padre Amaro , subtitled 'Scenes of Religious Life', is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.

“Even the pot-bellied abbot, who in the evening sits on his veranda with a paternal air, enjoying his coffee and picking the holes in his teeth, has in his innermost soul the makings of a Torquemada.”

José Maria Eça de Queiroz book O Crime do Padre Amaro

E o abade pançudo que à tardinha, à varanda, palita o dente furado saboreando o seu café com um ar paterno, traz dentro em si os indistintos restos dum Torquemada.
O Crime do Padre Amaro (1875), ch. 8; translation by Nan Flanagan from The Sin of Father Amaro ([1962] 1985) p. 98.