People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON