Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
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