Quotes by Chesterton, Gilbert K.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at >>

New roads; new ruts. >>

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to >>

Quotations about Journalism and Journalists

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Jou >>

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history >>

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is >>

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.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.