G. K. Chesterton Quotes
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
