Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’ Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
