“There is a game of April Fool that’s played behind its door,/ Where the fool remains for ever and the April comes no more”.
G.K. Chesterton “The Aristocrat” with respect to the Devil’s “little place at What’sitsname (it isn’t far away)”
In my latest National Post column I say the astounding outburst of rudeness from Communist China’s diplomats has very little to do with China and a whole lot to do with Communism.
“I am not certain that brevity is the soul of wit, but brevity is an excellent substitute for wit.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Times April 10, 1921, quoted in Gilbert! magazine vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
“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.