Ronald Knox

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

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

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

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.