Found 14 results for G.K. Chesterton
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: I Hate Methodism; and G. K. ...
Something else I recently came across?also written in the Jazz Age, though basically jazzless?was G. K. Chesterton's shot across the pond. The rotund, witty defender of the faith and champion of the faithful took aim at H. L. Mencken. ...
Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG): Priceless. :-)
My name is Mike, and I have decided to start a blog dedicated to providing quotes and excerpts from the writings of G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), as well as from time to time other items related to him. There are, of course, ...
GK Chesterton and YA Fiction « Changing Way
The Quote of the Day gadget today shows me this one from G.K. Chesterton. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. Then I saw (via Largehearted Boy) an ...
McConnell Center: Tadie - Chesterton's Notting Hill
Dr. Andrew Tadie, a professor at the University of Seattle , came to speak to the scholars on the literature of GK Chesterton, specifically Napoleon of Notting Hill. The novel portrays a futuristic London that devolves into a ...
Catholicmomof10militant: G.K.Chesterton & Prayer
G.K.Chesterton & Prayer. You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, foxing, walking, playing, ...