Words Worth Noting - May 30, 2025

“‘Realistic’ books are generally written from one or both of two very vile motives; the more pardonable is an ugly itch to excite our appetites, the much less pardonable is an ugly itch to depress our spirits.”

G.K. Chesterton in Daily News April 27, 1912, quoted in “The Ugly” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #1 (September-October 2024)