K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
suicide heaven earth
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
writing long waiting
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
bible heaven jesus-christ
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
plato greek bernard-shaw
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.
opposites interesting illuminating
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
race always-trying dodge
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
believe people tolerance
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
government aristocracy educated
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
mind theology humans
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
men effort truth-is
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
spiritual style coincidence
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable....
silence needs censorship
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
ideas catholic may
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
boat
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.