"Man must bow down to something." Fyodor Dostoevsky, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor
"I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it." Widely attributed to Groucho Marx but in 1962 he denied saying it in real life on leaving a party; he may have used it in a comedy routine but it almost certainly did not originate with him
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour." Truman Capote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe & Mail December 14, 2007
"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.
"Progress is the protection of all oppressions to-day; because progress tells us we are better than our fathers, even where conscience tells us we are worse than ourselves." G.K. Chesterton in New Witness July 19, 1918, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 # 1 (Sept.-Oct. 2016)
"Generally speaking (there are beautiful exceptions), generally speaking, if a man acts, but does not talk, it is because the action he is performing will not bear talking about." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Feb. 2, 1907, quoted in Gilbert! Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)
"Nothing fails like success" Dean Inge
"it’s so silly for people to speculate about things like whether He could have made a different moral order than he did. It’s like a child asking, 'If two and two made cheese, then what would monkeys equal?'" J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know