“tourist: the sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion.”
G.K. Chesterton in “Roman Converts” in Dublin Review January-March 1925, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. VIII #7 (June 2005)
“I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge?”
The heroine in J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, quoted by Edward Tingley in First Things January 2002
“Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. Shut up he explained.”
Ring Lardner, The Young Immigrunts quoted by George F. Will in National Post August 24, 2002
“‘Let there be light!’ said God, and there was light! ‘Let there be blood,’ says man, and there’s a sea!’”
Lord Byron “Don Juan” quoted in Orlo Miller The Donnellys Must Die
In my latest National Post column I say the Kielburgers may be right about Trudeau, but they have a long way to go on themselves.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say calling for Canada to become a republic because of Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview, or for any other reason, misses the point that it already is one.
“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.”
Kaspar Gutman, “the Fat Man”, in The Maltese Falcon
“No possible complexity which we can give to our picture of the universe can hide us from God… We read in Revelation of Him that sat on the throne ‘from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.’ It may happen to any of us at any moment. In the twinkling of an eye, in a time to small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish, leaving us naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and great commandment.”
C.S. Lewis God in the Dock