What did Gilbert K. Chesterton mean by: How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. Gilbert K. Chesterton How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do? Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Coping, Humor, Resilience, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Compromise, Interest, Law, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Divinity, Identity, Symbolism, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Connection, Imperfection, Support, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Art, Decay, Society, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Generation gap, Perspective, Understanding, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Facts, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Identity, Mortality, Power, 0 Gilbert K. Chesterton
