Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I hate a quarrel because it interrupts an argument.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics – you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood, Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will, Starve, scourge, deride […]
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey […]
The Yankee is a dab at electricity and crime, He tells you how he hustles and it takes him quite a time. I like his hospitality that’s cordial and frank, I do not mind his money, but I do not like his swank.
