Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHumour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThey hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
Gilbert K. Chesterton