K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
bottle crack fish hath man sauce seen stand tea treat
But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
height style
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
miracles wonderful
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
church world grows
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.
sometimes persons right-person
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
slang streams
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
dragons fairy-stories fairy-tale
Fairy tales are more than true ...
apples noses newton
If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
news enough
Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
learning past romance
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
sunset nocturnal architecture
All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
flames facts spirit
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
humility pride feet
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.