“But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.”
Nikabrik [re using bad magic, however] in C.S. Lewis Prince Caspian
“In the famous exchange of letters (in Latin) between C.S. Lewis and St. Giovanni Calabria, Lewis makes a prescient remark: ‘They err who say: “The world is turning pagan again.” Would that it were! The truth is, we are falling into a much worse state. Post-Christian man is not the same as pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as a virgin from a widow.’”
Ted Janiszewski in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“The same age which tends to economic slavery tends to social anarchy; and especially to sexual anarchy. So long as men can be driven in droves like sheep, they can be as promiscuous as sheep.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly March 9, 1929, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“Nothing that works is silly...”
Nessus (the puppeteer) in Larry Niven Ringworld
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“‘I try to be, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, ‘wise enough to be made a fool of.’”
Susan Cheever in Newsday November 12, 2002 p. B02, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #1 (9/03)
“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington] [and yes, I’m on an Iron Duke binge because I’d long admired him but had no idea he’d uttered so many bon mots, if he’ll pardon my French].