“The French expression qui s’excuse s’accuse...”
John O’Sullivan in National Review May 1, 1995
“The symphony in B quiet”
One of mine, from May 1, 2002, regarding aggressively modernist music.
“always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
Gabriel Syme in G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday
In my latest Mercatornet column I say the United States Supreme Court is contributing to the corrosive distrust spreading in their society, and ours as well.
“it ain’t over until it’s over and then it ain’t over.”
Yogi Berra, according to Jeffrey Simpson in Globe & Mail August 14, 2001
“By his own admission, [actor Stephen] Fry can’t dance and couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles.”
Rod Dreher in National Review May 31, 1999
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Aldous Huxley, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 18, 2005