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| St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon. | | Uncategorized | |
| Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war. | | Uncategorized | |
| Talk about the pews and steeples/ And the cash that goes therewith!/ But the souls of Christian peoples . . ./ Chuck it, Smith! | | Uncategorized | |
| Tea, although an Oriental, / Is a gentleman at least; / Cocoa is a cad and coward, / Cocoa is a vulgar beast. | | Uncategorized | |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def | | Art | |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. | | Uncategorized | |
| The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. | | Uncategorized | |
| The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. | | Christianity | |
| The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living. | | Uncategorized | |
| The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. | | Uncategorized | |
| The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting. | | Uncategorized | |
| The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; / They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots. | | Uncategorized | |
| The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. | | Uncategorized | |
| The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall. | | Uncategorized | |
| The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. | | Poverty | |
| The human race, to which so many of my readers belong. | | Uncategorized | |
| The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision. | | Uncategorized | |