K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
suicide thinking today
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
laughter humor ideas
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.
able mood
A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.
fighting men happy-marriage
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
stories highest good-story
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.
tired may orthodoxy
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
wild-places mind way
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
thoughtful freethinker
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.
psychology human-nature pity
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
garden clouds weather
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.
drinking beer thank-god
We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
leisure
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
brain theology
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.