“Humanity is far too complex to have calculations made about it.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 15, 1933, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“The London School of Economics would sponsor mock trials to aid the London hospitals, and Chesterton was invited to participate in a number of these, which always drew a large crowd (and thereby donations). On one occasion, he was pitted against several artists, charging them with constantly changing their standards so that a bewildered public knew not what to admire. Art was represented by Sir William Rothenstein, Eric Gill, and Sir Reginald Blomfield.... Blomfield, a famous architect, after hearing Chesterton’s opening argument, ‘deserted his colleagues and turned King’s Evidence.’”
Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Becoming Catholic does not mean leaving off thinking; it means learning how to think.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution as header quotation on Mercy Hudson’s contribution to their new “My Name is Lazarus” conversion story series in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
Having been called an Optimist in his youth because of his opposition to fashionable youth pessimism “after naturally enjoying the daylight, I came to be troubled with the twilight…. All that there is, in substance, on the other side, is a row of official optimists, boasting of the liberties they have not got, and defending the religion they do not believe.”
G.K. Chesterton somewhere in G.K’s Weekly Vol. 22 (3/10/35 to 12/3/36) quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“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)