‘The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, “Keep tomorrow dark,” and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) “Cheat the Prophet.” The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.’
– G.K. Chesterton.

“The most pitiful of modern idolatries is the modern idolatry of humor — the philosophy which, in contempt of the image of God, would turn man into a philosophical hyena.”

—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.

“No man has ever laughed at anything till he has laughed at himself.”

—G K Chesterton.

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.”

—G K Chesterton.

“If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.”

—G K Chesterton.

“Communists are ready to recognize that the Catholic attitude to economics is fatal to their view, but they do not see…that Catholicism is also fatal to the capitalist attitude, and that Capitalism could never have arisen if the revolt against Catholicism had not first occurred.”

—G K Chesterton.