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G K Chesterton
People accuse journalism...
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with...
And goodness only...
And goodness only knowses
The Noselessness of Man.
Source: The Song of...
`The Christian ideal,'...
`The Christian ideal,' it is said, `has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...
Ritual will always...
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our...
But we are...
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet.
Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite...
The timidity of...
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is...
If an angel...
If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour...
If a thing...
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Source: What's Wrong with the...
Art consists of...
Art consists of limitation. . . . The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Smile at us,...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken...
The whole object...
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a...
Those thinkers who...
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for...
An artist will...
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Source: ``The Dagger with...
Compromise used to...
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that...
The average man...
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with...
The perplexity of...
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...
Brave men are...
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the...
THE UNIVERSE: The...
THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.
Source:...
And Noah he...
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
`I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get...
There's no such...
There's no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find out which is the winning...