The Man Who Was Thursday Quotes
Absurdism, English novels, Works by G. K. Chesterton, Thriller novels
Top Quotes
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.”
“If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.”
“It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.”
“You are a very fine fellow … You can believe in a sanity which is not merely your sanity.”
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“Vulgar people are never mad. I'm vulgar myself, and I know. I am now going on shore to stand a drink to everybody here.”
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“A radio play based on the book by the Mercury Theatre on Air”
“I have a suspicion that you are all mad … but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.”
“Four out of the five rich men in this town … are common swindlers. I suppose the proportion is pretty equal all over the world.”
“There's one thing I'll tell you though about who I am. I am the man in the dark room, who made you all policemen.”
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“Dale Ahlquist's Lecture on Thursday for the American Chesterton Society”
“We were all a lot of silly policemen looking at each other. And all these nice people who have been peppering us with shot thought we were the dynamiters.”
“Mercury Theatre dramatisation of The Man Who Was Thursday (1 hour mp3 audio - 26.3 MB)”
“"Do you understand," said the other, "that this is a tragedy?"
"Perfectly," replied Syme; "always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"”
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honour and death.”