Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jok…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
824 citations
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). Heretics
Humor Truth
35

More Author Quotes

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ✨ Alarms And Discursions. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who get … ▶
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have do … ▶

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). Heretics

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes