K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
effort church heresy
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
certain one-thing
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
taken mad long
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane...
real science doctors
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth. ...
healing problem blind
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.
men optimism bones
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
legends chiefs century
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
complaining rich poor
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
believe happy-times today
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
ivory white snow
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
exercise pessimism conventions
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.
editors giving safe
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual.
hate enemy enough
If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
education children people
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.