Five Quotes, vol. xiii

The Chaucer Bookshop

Canterbury, England

This week I finished reading Chesterton's short English history and read a lot of mysteries set in Yorkshire, very apropos since today is Yorkshire Day.  In honor of the day I included two Yorkshire sayings I used to see printed on tea towels, greeting cards, and the like.  

"...it's hard to distinguish between the irrational and the possible at almost two o'clock in the morning."

- The Red Notebook, Anthony Lourain

"Everyone who carries a lot of cares in their head should have one day a month in their nightdress."

- Murder in the Afternoon, Frances Brody

"There is something very typical of an English revolution in having the tumbril without the guillotine."

- A Short History of England, G.K. Chesterton

"See all, hear all, say nowt."

- a Yorkshire saying quoted in Murder in the Afternoon, Frances Brody

"You can allus tell a Yorkshireman--but you can't tell him much."

- traditional Yorkshire saying quoted in Murder in the Afternoon, Frances Brody