The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
I am too tangled up with the whole thing, you see, and I was certainly never born to set it right. You look distressed, not to say shocked, and I'm not at all offended at it.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
"Somehow," he said, "there seems to be something rather horrid about the things you know." "There is," replied Horne Fisher. "I am not at all pleased with my small stock of knowledge and reflection.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
They had all that forgetfulness of history that goes everywhere with the extension of education.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
Nevertheless, he accepted Prime Ministers as he accepted railway trains—as part of a system which he, at least, was not the revolutionist sent on earth to destroy.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
"I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything," said Horne Fisher. "I don't mean especially about Ireland. I mean about England. I mean about the whole way we are governed, and perhaps the only way we can be governed.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
"I'm ashamed of myself," replied Fisher. "I've just been throwing cold water on the enthusiasms of a boy." "Even that explanation is hardly exhaustive," observed the criminal expert. "Damned newspaper nonsense the enthusiasms were, of course," continued Fisher, "but I ought to know that at that age illus
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"I think a good many things," replied the other. "If you people ever happen to blow the whole tangle of society to hell with dynamite, I don't know that the human race will be much the worse. But don't be too hard on me merely because I know what society is. That's why I moon away my time over things like stinking fish."
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
My life has been a life in that little room on that lonely island. Plenty of books and cigars and luxuries, plenty of knowledge and interest and information, but never a voice out of that tomb to reach the world outside. I shall probably die there." And he smiled as he looked across the vast green park to the gray horizon.