«The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare» kitabından alıntılar, sayfa 2

The more his mother preached a more than Puritan abstinence the more did his father expand into a more than pagan latitude; and by the time the former had come to enforcing vegetarianism, the latter had pretty well reached the point of defending cannibalism.

His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion.

The most effective fact in oratory is an unexpected change in the voice.

She was looking at him from under level brows; her face was grave and open, and there had fallen upon it the shadow of that unreasoning responsibility which is at the bottom of the most frivolous woman, the maternal watch which is as old as the world.