“It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating.”
– “The Fallacy of Success,” All Things Considered
“There are only two ways of governing: by a rule and by a ruler.”
– “The Queen and the Suffragettes,” What’s Wrong with the World
“There are two ways of being bloodless – by the avoidance of blood without, and by the absence of blood within.”
– Illustrated London News, Aug. 3, 1918
“There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes.”
– Illustrated London News, Oct. 15, 1921
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”
– “Introduction,” The Everlasting Man
“There are two ways of dealing with the dignity, the pain, the prejudice or the rooted humour of the poor; especially of the rural poor. One of them is to see in their tragedy only a stark simplicity, like the outline of a rock; the other is to see in it an unfathomable though a savage complexity, like the labyrinthine complexity of a living forest.”
– A Shropshire Lass, GKC as MC
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” said Father Brown; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One is to have a horror of him because he is so far off; and the other to have it because he is so near. And no virtue and vice are so much divided as those two virtues.”
– “The Secret of Flambeau,” The Secret of Father Brown
“There are two ways in which a man may vanish – through being thoroughly conquered or through being thoroughly the Conqueror. . . For a man may vanish as Chaos vanished in the face of creation, or he may vanish as God vanished in filling all things with that created life.”
– “Tennyson,” A Handful of Authors