All Things Considered (G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton)
- Highlight on Page 39 | Loc. 640-43 | Added on Monday, January 02, 2012, 11:55 PM
As to the affair of the English monument to Shakspere, every people has its own mode of commemoration, and I think there is a great deal to be said for ours. There is the French monumental style, which consists in erecting very pompous statues, very well done. There is the German monumental style, which consists in erecting very pompous statues, badly done. And there is the English monumental method, the great English way with statues, which consists in not erecting them at all. A statue may be dignified; but the absence of a statue is always dignified.
