K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
country desperate drunk except patriot saying
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.
rolling made drunkards
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
mad perfect drunk
Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
although gentleman vulgar
Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
england pass pay people quite smile spoken
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
anyone earth life mystery point riddle
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.
alas england graves rule
And they that rule in England, / In stately conclave met, / Alas, alas for England / They have no graves as yet.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
anyone blasphemy doubts itself religion survive
Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that, let him try to blaspheme Odin.
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
apple goes heaven road wood
The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales.
love might realize scholars-and-scholarship
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
miracles wonderful
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
progress settled simply
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.