There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTruth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBy a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMan is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.
Gilbert K. ChestertonInstead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.
Gilbert K. Chesterton