From G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic:
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
From G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State (1922):
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
From G.K. Chesterton, (1874–1936), British writer whose prolific and diverse output included works of philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, Illustrated London News (6 April 1918):
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Remarkably prescient, coming as it did 99 years before Republicans’ effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
From G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic:
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
