What's Wrong with the World Quotes

“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:truthhonestylie

“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:trutheducation

“For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:womenmen

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:womenworkobedience

“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:freedomfear

“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:menpolitics

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:friendshipfeelings

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:religion

“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:educationchildren

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:educationteaching