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“All his actions had something at once ambitious and conscientious; he drank no wine, but was slightly intoxicated with words. And his face and phrases were on the front page of all the newspapers just then, because he was contesting the safe seat of Sir Francis Verner in the great by-election in the west.” (The Man Who Knew Too Much Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Believe me, you never know the best about men till you know the worst about them.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“But it’s my reading of human nature that a man will cheat in his trade, but not in his hobby.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Despite the almost aggressive touch of luxury in the fur coat, it soon became apparent that Sir Walter’s large leonine head was for use as well as ornament, and he considered the matter soberly and sanely enough.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Gentlemen used to lie just as schoolboys lie, because they hung together and partly to help one another out.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“God alone knows what the conscience can survive, or how a man who has lost his honor will still try to save his soul.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“He was only one of those young men who cannot support the burden of consciousness unless they are doing something, and whose conceptions of doing something are limited to a game of some kind.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“In the light of after events there seemed to be something monstrous and ominous about that exuberance, something of the spirit that is called fey. At the time it merely crossed a few people’s minds that he might possibly be drunk.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Only conscious of the closeness of the elephant when the colossal head blocked out the moon.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Something lay in the shadow at the foot of the ridge, as stiff as the stick of the fallen rocket; and the man who knew too much knew what is worth knowing.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“The schoolboy had something of the stolid air of a young duke doing the grand tour, while his elderly relative was reduced to the position of a courier, who nevertheless had to pay for everything like a patron.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical. And he never goes on sitting there after sunset, with the whole place getting dark.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“We’re all really dependent in nearly everything, and we all make a fuss about being independent in something.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“You know I always liked you,” said Fisher, quietly, “but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You may possibly guess that I like a good many people I don’t respect. Perhaps it is my tragedy, perhaps it is my fault. But you are very different, and I promise you this: that I will never try to keep you as somebody to be liked, at the price of your not being respected.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
