Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
252
AUTHOR:
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
QUOTATION:
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
ATTRIBUTION:
G. K. CHESTERTON, What’s Wrong with the World, chapter 3, p. 18 (1910).
