Modesty is always beautiful
G.K. ChestertonThrift is poetic because it is creative.
G.K. ChestertonReason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
G.K. ChestertonI believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
G.K. ChestertonThe person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
G.K. ChestertonAll the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
G.K. ChestertonWhen learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.
G.K. ChestertonIt is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
G.K. ChestertonWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
G.K. ChestertonThe past is not what it was.
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