What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism. — Gilbert K Chesterton
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K Chesterton
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of — Gilbert K Chesterton
There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism. — Gilbert K Chesterton
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of — Gilbert K Chesterton
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K Chesterton
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K Chesterton