I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before I die. I thought of one yesterday in bed.
G.K. ChestertonFairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G.K. ChestertonTags: inspirational dragons fairy-tales dragon bogey bogeyman
In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men.
G.K. ChestertonA man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.
G.K. ChestertonRight is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
G.K. ChestertonIt [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
G.K. ChestertonTags: inspirational lies femininism
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
G.K. ChestertonThe men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor humanity humour language seriousness
the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor humour human-nature jokes
it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor humour facts truths jokes
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