3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
