By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
