For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
Gilbert K. Chesterton