K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
moon sky naked
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
educational two people
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
men satire libel
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
fairytale lessons fairy-tale
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
nuisance bed glory
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
hate argument discussion
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
men hair flames
Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
pride thinking idiot
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
truth struggle dawn
In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
men catholic riddle
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
animal elephants wicked
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
brother sleep law
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
philosophy men thinking
I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.
matter sides reeds
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.