* Gregory's attempts at [[PaperThinDisguise disguising]] his anarchy are... well, let's just say they bring ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZIM'' to mind more than anything else.
--> "...I dressed up as a bishop. I read up all about bishops in our anarchist pamphlets, in ''Superstition the Vampire'' and ''Priests of Prey''. I certainly understood from them that bishops are strange and terrible old men keeping a cruel secret from mankind. I was misinformed. When on my first appearing in episcopal gaiters in a drawing-room I cried out in a voice of thunder, 'Down! down! presumptuous human reason!' they found out in some way that I was not a bishop at all..."
* Syme getting elected as the new Thursday. There’s something wonderfully absurd about anarchists using Robert’s Rules of Order.
* Syme's elaborate (and not entirely sober) plan to provoke the Marquis into a duel, with a very precise sequence of events. He's quite startled when someone points out that it might not necessarily go the way he plans.
* When it seems the band of detectives are facing an entire population turned anarchist, [[spoiler: Dr. Bull]] quickly decides that he and not the word has gone mad and periodically peppers the ensuing crisis with assertions of his own insanity.
-->"I am in a padded cell."
* GKC's typical wisecracks are in top form throughout. One classic example:
-->"Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
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