Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

“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.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”

“Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.”

“What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.”

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.”

“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”

“Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.”

“Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.”

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”