7 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Communication

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on communication

4. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

6. The simplification of anything is always sensational.

15. And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

92. No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. In similar style, I hold that I am dogmatic and right, while Mr. Shaw is dogmatic and wrong.

114. For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. The speeches in our time are more careful and elaborate, because they are meant to be read, and not to be heard. And exactly because they are more careful and elaborate, they are not so likely to be worthy of a careful and elaborate report. They are not interesting enough. So the moral cowardice of modern politicians has, after all, some punishment attached to it by the silent anger of heaven. Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

146. If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

190. The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.