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G K Chesterton
The only words...
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell,...
Blasphemy itself could...
Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme...
You have weighed...
You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span:
Take, if you must have answer, the word...
My country, right...
My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like...
A dying monarchy...
A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than...
The mere brute...
The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Most Americans are...
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent...
Every politician is...
Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
Source: The Secret of...
The one stream...
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Source: The...
Strong gongs groaning...
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war.
Merrily taking twopenny...
Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife;
But these were luxuries not for him who went for the...
It seems a...
It seems a pity that psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
God made the...
God made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,
That men might shun the awful shop
And go to inns to...
With monstrous head...
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all...
The folk that...
The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots;
They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the...
His English education...
His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the...
One may understand...
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Journalism largely consists...
Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was...
With any recovery...
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Tradition means giving...
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...