Quotes by G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatic — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolatio — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You di — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else. — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?"Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled swe — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I was waiting for you," said Gregory. "Might I have a moment's conversation?""Certainly. About what?" asked Syme in a so — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does notfear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, l — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he wa — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance.""Eh?" said Syme, staring."The soldier m — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
I sat in the darkness, where there is not any created thing, and to you I was only a voice commanding valour and an unna — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick. — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such co — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous soci — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Every trace of the passionate plumage of the cloudy sunset had been swept away, and a naked moon stood in a naked sky. T — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I — G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare