Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
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The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke.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.
mean doe dogma
Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
weather tree insulting
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
war men evil
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
art stars tree
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
struggle mean men
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
democracy tradition
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
lying simple faces
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
suicide thinking today
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
pain mistake two
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
country nature men
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
media world news
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
belief torture martyr
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.