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“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?” (The Man Who Was Thursday Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“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.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“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.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“I could forgive you even your cruelty if it were not for your calm.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“If you’d take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can’t say. But it might.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face – that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a hundred disadvantages, the world will always return to monogamy.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
“You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
