I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
Gilbert K. Chesterton