Words Worth Noting - April 24, 2026

“Perhaps, the new intellectual world was really inaugurated when Oscar Wilde said about Bernard Shaw: ‘He has no enemies; but he is intensely disliked by all his friends.’”

G.K. Chesterton in “Peculiar Peace-Makers” in The New York American March 25, 1933, reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)