G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday Quotes
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.
I am not good at deception, ' said Tuesday gloomily, flushing.Right, my boy, right, ' said the President with a ponderous heartiness, 'You aren't good at anything.
Oh, most unhappy man, ' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world, ' said Gregory.