K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
kings hate men
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
military believe army
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
creative waste dustbin
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
truth fiction suits
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
matter sides reeds
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
brother sleep law
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
truth struggle dawn
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
pride thinking idiot
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
hate argument discussion
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
nuisance bed glory
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
fairytale lessons fairy-tale
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
educational two people
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
moon sky naked
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
names people finals
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.