Sunday, June 27, 2021

Chesterton again

He can be amazingly timely: "A child has a difficulty in achieving the miracle of speech, consequently we find his blunders almost as marvellous as his accuracy. If we only adopted the same attitude towards Premiers Presidents and Chancellors of the Exchequer Representatives, if we genially encouraged their stammering and delightful attempts at human speech, we should be in a far more wise and tolerant temper."

And when writing about detective stories: "We may dream, ..., and that it would be harder and more exciting to hunt their virtues than to hunt their crimes"

1 comment:

K T Cat said...

Chesterton's photo ought to be in the dictionary next to the word, "classic." That is, his work is timeless.