G.K. Chesterton, Manalive Quotes

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.