But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton