“What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.”

—G K Chesterton. 

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”

—G K Chesterton. 

“The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.”

—G K Chesterton. 

“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”

—G K Chesterton. 

‘There are several things to be noted about this novel maxim, “religion is a private matter.” The first is that it is obviously untrue, except in the sense that it is too true to be useful, or so obvious as to be useless.’

—G K Chesterton. 

“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.”

—G K Chesterton. 

“Philosophy is merely thought that has been thought out. It is often a great bore. But man has no alternative, except between being influenced by thought that has been thought out and being influenced by thought that has not been thought out.”

—G K Chesterton.