We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
Gilbert K. ChestertonContemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
Gilbert K. Chesterton