Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Gilbert K. ChestertonUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton