“Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.”
– Illustrated London News, Nov. 16, 1907
“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”
– The Chesterton Review, Feb., 1984
“I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.”
– Illustrated London News, Oct. 7, 1916
“Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.”
– “If I Only Had One Sermon to Preach,” In Defense of Sanity