G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday: "It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely."

"It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely." The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) is G.K. Chesterton's attack on anarchist philosophies and defense of law, righteousness and order. It tells the story of a secret group of anarchists who conspire against national security. The Londoner poet Lucian Gregory is a fervent defender of the movement's ideals while his close friend Gabriel Syme is paradoxically a Scotland Yard secret agent whose task is to undo a...