K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
house void rooms
Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.
men thinking vision
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
thinking temptation ifs
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
real mean talking
If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
drinking people driving
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
men language modern
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
men dust disease
If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.
fall brain want
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
country war men
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.
feminist female characteristics
Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
real character men
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.
fun real adventure
The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.
people research want
Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.
men common boat
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.