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G K Chesterton
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. ...
The human race,...
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.
Source: The Napoleon of...
The ordinary scientific...
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is...
Lying in bed...
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...
The rolling English...
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...
Thieves respect property....
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect...
Individually, men may...
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping and scheming. But humanity as a...
The madman is...
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his...
Once I planned...
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and...
They have given...
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their...
For the great...
For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their...