What's Wrong with the World Quotes

“a fundamental quality in the female tradition . . . The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.”

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

topic:language

“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.”

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

topic:poetry

“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.”

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

topic:rightwrong

“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

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

topic:worth