"I object to a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
"When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things."
G. K. Chesterton"Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen."
G. K. Chesterton"Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance."
G. K. Chesterton"The simplification of anything is always sensational."
G. K. Chesterton"There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism."
G. K. Chesterton"The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head."
G. K. Chesterton