Rules
1. Max one quote a day from any posters. Why? Well, there are about a thousand odd quotes I would like to post, and I am sure I am not the only one. :D
2. No paragraphs or essays, just (relatively) short quotes. We all know GK could talk for hours about nearly anything, so keep it short.
C'mon fellow Chesterton fans, lets share some of our best GK quotes to the uninitiated! Hopefully this thread is in the right place, as I figured GK's line of thinking and approach to our Faith will be helpful to some! Our religion is one of joy because we want to be in it, not being a downer because we have to! Lets see what you got!
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."
G.K. Chesterton
"Three acres and a cow".
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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
? G.K. Chesterton
Kinda like this thread.... :D
"Angels can fly because they can take.themselves lightly."
I have a bad memory but this is on my refrigerator, somewhere.
"Nietzsche's aristocracy has about it all the sacredness that belongs to the weak. When he makes us feel that he cannot endure the innumerable faces, the incessant voices, the overpowering omnipresence which belongs to the mob, he will have the sympathy of anybody who has ever been sick on a steamer or tired in a crowded omnibus. Every man has hated mankind when he was less than a man. Every man has had humanity in his eyes like a blinding fog, humanity in his nostrils like a suffocating smell. But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves."
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CHESTERTON. To look at you, one would think there was a famine in the land.
SHAW. To look at you, one would think that you had caused it.
Real wit! Unlike the crass humor promoted these days.
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
? G.K. Chesterton
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists."
? G.K. Chesterton
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."
? G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
"Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers."
-G.K. Chesterton
Lol @Mr. Mysterious you stole my next quote!!
"Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out."
? G.K. Chesterton
"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
? G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern."
G.K. Chesterton.
I hate what the Liberals have done to Canada. Another lockdown today, can't even have one person over. I'm going over to my friend's place anyhow.
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."
? G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
G.K. Chesterton
<<The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the Faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century. Even the materialists have fled from materialism; and those who lectured us about determinism in psychology are already talking about indeterminism in matter.>>
~G. K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
"A man's friend likes him but leaves him as he is: his wife loves him and is always trying to turn him into somebody else."
G.K. Chesterton
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
G.K. Chesterton
"I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."
? G.K. Chesterton, A Short History Of England
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
? G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
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"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried".
"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: clau clau on May 20, 2021, 08:11:15 AM
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
? G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
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"Mmm - cheese"
- Chesterton, probably
Joking aside:
"Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness."
- Orthodoxy
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon." Orthodoxy
Quote from: nmoerbeek on June 22, 2021, 05:33:38 PM
"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, 'Do it again'; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony.
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again' to the sun; and every evening, 'Do it again' to the moon." Orthodoxy
One of my favorites.
"People, if you have any prayers,
Say prayers for me:
And lay me under a Christian stone
In that lost land I thought my own,
To wait till the holy horn is blown,
And all poor men are free."
? G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
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"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
? G.K. Chesterton
Kinda like this thread.... :D
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: andy on June 22, 2021, 06:43:17 PM
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"The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statutes, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen — that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics. Vaccination, in its hundred years of experiment, has been disputed almost as much as baptism in its approximate two thousand. But it seems quite natural to our politicians to enforce vaccination; and it would seem to them madness to enforce baptism."
-- G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils (1922)
Prescient.
We can always convict such people of sentimentalism by their weakness for euphemism. The phrase they use is always softened and suited for journalistic appeals. They talk of free love when they mean something quite different, better defined as free lust. But being sentimentalists they feel bound to simper and coo over the word "love." They insist on talking about Birth Control when they mean less birth and no control. We could smash them to atoms, if we could be as indecent in our language as they are immoral in their conclusions." - G. K. Chesterton, "Obstinate Orthodoxy" in The Thing.)
"Using Excel is certainly penitential"
... oh sorry, that was a Chestertonian quote.
http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=23445.msg493797#msg493797
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." – The Everlasting Man
Reminds me of his Excellency Marcel Lefebvre. God rest his soul. Thank you for standing up for tradition. I know I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for you.
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
G.K. Chesterton
"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
? G.K. Chesterton
"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labour by which all things live."
G.K. Chesterton
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."
? G.K. Chesterton
"Tradition is so strong, that future generations will dream of what they never saw." —
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: Christe Eleison on August 17, 2021, 04:57:13 AM
"Tradition is so strong, that future generations will dream of what they never saw." —
G.K. Chesterton
Nice one!
"The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything."
G.K. Chesterton
"Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about them that always perplexed me; I mean the startling difference in their type of religious art. I do not mean in its technical style of representation, but in the things that it was manifestly meant to represent. No two ideals could be more opposite than a Christian saint in a Gothic cathedral and a Buddhist saint in a Chinese temple. The opposition exists at every point; but perhaps the shortest statement of it is that the Buddhist saint always has his eyes shut, while the Christian saint always has them very wide open. The Buddhist saint has a sleek and harmonious body, but his eyes are heavy and sealed with sleep. The mediaeval saint's body is wasted to its crazy bones, but his eyes are frightfully alive. There cannot be any real community of spirit between forces that produced symbols so different as that. Granted that both images are extravagances, are perversions of the pure creed, it must be a real divergence which could produce such opposite extravagances. The Buddhist is looking with a peculiar intentness inwards. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards. If we follow that clue steadily we shall find some interesting things."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: Melkor on August 17, 2021, 07:43:46 PM
Quote from: Christe Eleison on August 17, 2021, 04:57:13 AM
"Tradition is so strong, that future generations will dream of what they never saw." —
G.K. Chesterton
Nice one!
Thank you, Melkor! I think it is appropriate right now ;)
Great thread, by the way! :thumbsup: I have enjoyed reading it!! Thanks!
Quote from: Christe Eleison on August 18, 2021, 07:46:35 PM
Quote from: Melkor on August 17, 2021, 07:43:46 PM
Quote from: Christe Eleison on August 17, 2021, 04:57:13 AM
"Tradition is so strong, that future generations will dream of what they never saw." —
G.K. Chesterton
Nice one!
Thank you, Melkor! I think it is appropriate right now ;)
Great thread, by the way! :thumbsup: I have enjoyed reading it!! Thanks!
Hey, if I have inspired one person with an idea to read and admire the great G.K., I am happy!
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
"The men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. He's the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
G.K. Chesterton
"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.'
G.K. Chesterton
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos;
for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
G.K. Chesterton
"It is alleged against me, and with perfect truth, that I stopped on the way to drink a glass of milk in one shop and to buy a revolver with cartridges in another. Some have seen these as singular wedding-presents for a bridegroom to give to himself, and if the bride had known less of him, I suppose she might have fancied that he was a suicide or a murderer or, worst of all, a teetotaller. They seemed to me the most natural things in the world. I did not buy the pistol to murder myself—or my wife; I never was really modern. I bought it because it was the great adventure of my youth, with a general notion of protecting her from the pirates doubtless infesting the Norfolk Broads, to which we were bound; where, after all, there are still a suspiciously large number of families with Danish names. I shall not be annoyed if it is called childish; but obviously it was rather a reminiscence of boyhood, and not of childhood."
G.K Chesterton, Autobiography.
Quote from: Melkor on September 24, 2021, 09:47:41 PM
"It is alleged against me, and with perfect truth, that I stopped on the way to drink a glass of milk in one shop and to buy a revolver with cartridges in another. Some have seen these as singular wedding-presents for a bridegroom to give to himself, and if the bride had known less of him, I suppose she might have fancied that he was a suicide or a murderer or, worst of all, a teetotaller. They seemed to me the most natural things in the world. I did not buy the pistol to murder myself—or my wife; I never was really modern. I bought it because it was the great adventure of my youth, with a general notion of protecting her from the pirates doubtless infesting the Norfolk Broads, to which we were bound; where, after all, there are still a suspiciously large number of families with Danish names. I shall not be annoyed if it is called childish; but obviously it was rather a reminiscence of boyhood, and not of childhood."
G.K Chesterton, Autobiography.
Thank you, Melkor, for keeping this thread going! :thumbsup:
"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: Melkor on September 26, 2021, 07:22:05 PM
"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." :thumbsup:
G.K. Chesterton
Dear MELKOR!! :seeya:
Excellent quote, thank you, MELKOR!! :thumbsup:
God Bless you!
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Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton
White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.
Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young,
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,
Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,
Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Love-light of Spain—hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.
Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri's knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.
They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground,—
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, "Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not 'Kismet'; it is he that knows not Fate ;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth."
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
Sudden and still—hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Is gone by Alcalar.
St. Michael's on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.
King Philip's in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.
Don John's hunting, and his hounds have bayed—
Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid
Gun upon gun, ha! ha!
Gun upon gun, hurrah!
Don John of Austria
Has loosed the cannonade.
The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,
(Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.)
The hidden room in man's house where God sits all the year,
The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.
He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea
The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;
They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark,
They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark;
And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,
And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,
Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines
Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
They are lost like slaves that sweat, and in the skies of morning hung
The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.
They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on
Before the high Kings' horses in the granite of Babylon.
And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell
Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,
And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign—
(But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!)
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate's sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don John of Austria
Has set his people free!
Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath
(Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade....
(But Don John of Austria rides home from the Crusade.)
"The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: Melkor on October 17, 2021, 09:34:25 PM
"The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar."
G.K. Chesterton
Not suitable for non smoking abstainers like me then. :shrug:
On the other hand I do love a juicy steak - so maybe.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love that one clau!
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"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
G.K. Chesterton
Quote from: clau clau on October 21, 2021, 05:46:26 AM
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Dear CLAU CLAU!
I really love the picture/quote that you posted! :thumbsup: Thank you for sharing it with us! :toth: It is truly lovely!
God bless!
Quote from: Melkor on October 26, 2021, 07:49:19 AM
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
G.K. Chesterton
And having said that, there is no real need to discuss politics any further. Trying to understand the other side is a complete time waster. Because it is merely an exercise in trying to understand irrationality.
"What I meant, whether or no I managed to say it, was this; that no man knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whatever created him and enabled him to call himself anything. At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.171708/page/n97/mode/2up?q=sunrise
Quote from: Santantonio on October 26, 2021, 12:35:53 PM
"What I meant, whether or no I managed to say it, was this; that no man knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whatever created him and enabled him to call himself anything. At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.171708/page/n97/mode/2up?q=sunrise
Wow, I love this.
"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."
G.K. Chesterton
"There is nothing to which a man must give himself up with more faith and self abandonment than to genuine laughter."
G.K. Chesterton
Fearfully plain the flowers grew,
Like the child's book to read,
Or like a friend's face seen in a glass;
He looked; and there Our Lady was,
She stood and stroked the tall live grass
As a man strokes his steed.
Her face was like an open word
When brave men speak and choose,
The very colours of her coat
Were better than good news.
She spoke not, nor turned not,
Nor any sign she cast,
Only she stood up straight and free,
Between the flowers in Athelney,
And the river running past.
G.K. Chesterton - Ballad of the White Horse
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
G.K. Chesterton-bold is my own.
"The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
G.K. Chesterton
As someone who admires GK's sharp and intellectual assessments of both his own times and history; I often wonder what he would say about our current society.
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
I quote I have always remembered in my scientific research.
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
G.K. Chesterton
"Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them."
G.K. Chesterton
"If a boy fires off a gun, whether at a fox, a landlord or a reigning sovereign, he will be rebuked according to the relative value of these objects."
G.K. Chesterton
"There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
G.K. Chesterton
"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
G.K. Chesterton
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
? G.K. Chesterton
"One pint is enough, two pints is one too many, three pints isn't half enough."
G.K. Chesterton
"To have a horror of tobacco is not to have an abstract standard of right; but exactly the opposite. It is to have no standard of right whatever; and to make certain local likes and dislikes as a substitute. Nobody who has an abstract standard of right and wrong can possibly think it wrong to smoke a cigar."
G.K. Chesterton
"A practical man means a man accustomed to mere daily practice, to the way things commonly work. When things will not work, you must have the thinker, the man who has some doctrine about why they work at all. It is wrong to fiddle while Rome is burning; but it is quite right to study the theory of hydraulics while Rome is burning."
G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World.
"Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength."
G.K. Chesterton, source (https://www.ncregister.com/blog/take-a-lesson-from-pope-st-sixtus-iis-courage-and-take-hope).
"Modern women defend their office with all the fierceness of domesticity. They fight for desk and typewriter as for hearth and home, and develop a sort of wolfish wifehood on behalf of the invisible head of the firm. That is why they do office work so well; and that is why they ought not to do it."
G.K. Chesterton - What's Wrong With The World
"A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is."
G.K. Chesterton.
Reviving an old thread ;) I like the way this forum is going now, so imma start posting more.
"Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground... We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff's edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased." -G.K. Chesterton from Orthodoxy
"The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed."
G.K. Chesterton