And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe 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. ChestertonExperience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBecause our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDo not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton