K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
running women half
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
women home average
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.
grateful waiting feelings
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!
family men cities
Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
reading garden light
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
hope mean long
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
art mean awful
All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
country book valuable
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
real people democracy
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
spiritual drama theatre
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
children two giving
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.
mother progress problem
Progress is the mother of problems.
heaven nihilism world
The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.
men cake ideas
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.