She always asks them (a) why they became clergymen (b) if they wish they had been made a bishop and (c) if they enjoy sleeping with their wives.

Andrew says he insists on having the [Christmas] Tree either before Birdie [Unity] comes or after she’s gone as she embarrasses him so much with the clergymen as she always asks them (a) why they became clergymen (b) if they wish they had been made a bishop and (c) if they enjoy sleeping with their wives. I must say I do see.

Deborah to Diana, 1 December 1946, ed. C. Mosley, The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters (2007), 255

Tastes like sugared rainwater caught down a chimney

Episcopacy is a good thing; but it may be happen that a bishop is not a good thing. Just as brandy is a good thing, though this particular bottle is British, and tastes like sugared rainwater caught down a chimney.

G. Eliot, Scenes of clerical life (1858), 206
From 2010.

You can find a bishop anywhere, totally untrained, but all ready-made in dignity

How is it that precious stones are hard to find, fertile land rare, bad horses everywhere, and good ones bred only  in rich stables; but that you can find a bishop anywhere, totally untrained, but all ready-made in dignity

Gregory of Nazianzus, Concerning himself and the bishops (381), 389-92
tr. D.M. Meehan,, Three poems (1986), 61

A reminder that wrangling over appointment to the episcopate is not a modern phenomenon