Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Go to Quote / Comment
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists. Go to Quote / Comment
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. Go to Quote / Comment
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Go to Quote / Comment
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world. Go to Quote / Comment