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
mean men poverty
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
men civilization medicine
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
saint culture may
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
real thinking talking
I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
fashion culture exile
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
hustle culture strange
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
suffering our-society culture
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
people done experts
It 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.
government hard representatives
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
government ugly
All government is an ugly necessity.
numbers peasants millionaire
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
football party fighting
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
dull lasts politician
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
heart rebel conservative
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.