Free Advice
- "Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy
dances and theatres and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz
and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy
bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the
other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself" - The Common
Man.
- "Do not look at the faces in
the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street" - ILN,
11/16/07
- "When giving treats to friends
or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for
them" - Chesterton Review, February, 1984.
- "I agree with the realistic
Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event" - ILN,
10/7/16.
This piece has been removed from
"American Chesterton Society".