Laughter and Humility (GK-CHESTERTON.ORG)

When somebody wishes to wage a social war against what all normal people have regarded as a social decency, the very first thing he does is ...

It is an old moral, and obvious enough, that the fashion of this world passes away; yet we often find it hard to believe about the fashion o...

And, indeed, in this matter, we come in collision with the real objection to this false cult of simplicity. It is not truly childlike, for o...

Unfortunately those who talk about priests keeping the people in ignorance, are often those who have been entirely kept in ignorance about p...

...that great thing which men and children enjoy more than beauty or banquets- limitation. A thing given only at a certain time or in a cert...

But surely even the prosaic tyranny of real destitution is less brutal than the fantasy of pity. -February 15, 1901, (London) Daily News

Common-sense may, therefore, roughly be defined as the power of preserving our real impressions undistorted and intact. It might be thought...

Doubtless the best answer to a poet cursing creation is neither fire nor thunder: it is merely to inform him that his enjoyment of that poet...

...the law-giver is wholly unpopular, and is perpetually passing wholly unpopular laws. Intrigue has been substituted for government; and th...

There are more ways than one of committing infanticide; and one way is to murder the infancy without murdering the infant. - G.K.C. as M.C....

Shakespeare, living under the Tudors, who could (and did) kill anybody they wanted to kill, could write in a detached way about man who, “dr...

I should have liked the ordinary, old-fashioned, obstinate people, who still stick to the notion of some connection between themselves and t...