“Marching toward the present decade [from the history of the sexual revolution in the conflicting libertine and feminist versions], women are twice as likely as men to be on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.”
Amanda Hobbs in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“It may be a strange sight to see the blind leading the blind; but England provides a stranger. England shows us the blind leading the people who can see. And this again is an under-statement of the case.”
G.K. Chesterton in “A Glimpse of my Country” in Tremendous Trifles, quoted in “The Golden Key Chain GKC on Scripture Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I’ve done, I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“The modern humanitarian began by saying, ‘The Gospel according to St. Charles Dickens is good enough for me; I do not need to go to Bethlehem if I can go to Bob Cratchit’s home and see Tiny Tim enjoy the turkey; or to Dingley Dell and drink punch with men of real goodwill like Pickwick and Wardle.’ I quite understand that and even sympathize with it up to a point. Anyhow, the modern humanitarian sympathised with it and said it; and then immediately went off to put up a placard threatening to jail anybody who drank punch in prohibited hours and to join a society for proving that it is cruel to kill turkeys for food. In other words, he first boasted that he preferred the Pagan part of Christmas to the Christian part; and then he himself started furiously abusing and abolishing the Pagan part.”
G.K. Chesterton “A Question about Christmas” reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“the sort of story in which Jane is just like Tarzan, but with cleavage.”
J. Budziszewski in the Underground Thomist May 5, 2025 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/in-defense-of-a-stereotype].
“Never in human history were there writers who so sacrificed their humour and human dignity and hope of heaven, in order to be shocking. And never, in human history, were there readers who were so little shocked. There is no time or space for any shock to take effect.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly August 22, 1935, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Pilot, you’ll never get anywhere in this life if you only do what is wise.”
Lt.-Cmdr. Ninian Scott-Elliot, who had a distinguished wartime career with the Royal Navy (and uttered this phrase when warned that his plane was pursuing a U-boat too close to shore) before moving to the Solomons where he died age 86, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen April 19, 1998
“The worst kind of depression is not when we see bad things and hate them; the worst kind of depression, the hell below hell, is when we see good things and do not love them.”
G.K. Chesterton in London Opinion April 2, 1904, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)