34 Quotes by Ronald Knox

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.