People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.More Gilbert Chesterton quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness andMore Gilbert Chesterton quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.More Gilbert Chesterton quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.More Gilbert Chesterton quotes [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To be simple is the best thing in the world.More Gilbert Chesterton quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]