Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, "Kreivi" Quotes in Kreivi (1971)

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, "Kreivi": There are some priests who can't get an erection... I can see why you're confused, but I'm such a young theologian that I still have the thoughts and the habits of a young man.

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, "Kreivi": [Having impersonated 'a man of the cloth'] Have I taken advantage of a lonely traveller?

Leena, housewife: No.

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, "Kreivi": A woman's transgressions are more to be condemned than a man's... It's so bloody quick for us, with zip fasteners... it's as quick as lightning, then we make a mistake with a woman. Afterwards we hardly remember it. But women carry it with them for a long time. If she carries it back home with her, isn't that harmful?

Leena, housewife: ...You're quite a surprising vicar.