“Only Calvinists can really believe that hell is paved with good intentions. That is exactly the one thing it cannot be paved with.”

—G K Chesterton.

‘The question is not so much “Are there foreigners in my country?” but “Are there cosmopolitans in my country, cosmopolitans who act in complete indifference to my country, and all other countries?”‘

—G K Chesterton.

“Humor is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. It is meant to remind us human beings that we have things about us as ungainly and ludicrous as the nose of the elephant or the neck of the giraffe.”

—G K Chesterton.

“The child who doubts about Santa Claus has insomnia. The child who believes has a good night’s rest.”
—G K Chesterton.

“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.”

—G K Chesterton.

“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense has really become very uncommon. Straightforward ideas appear strange or unfamiliar, and any thought that does not follow the conventional curve or twist, is supposed to be a sort of joke.”

——G. K. Chesterton.

“Everybody is talking, with a not unnatural excitement, about the wonderful opportunity which broadcasting will give us to send our words to a remote continent. Nobody seems concerned to ask whether we’ve anything to say even to the next street, let alone to the remote continent.”
—G K Chesterton.