| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12156 |
| QUOTATION: | If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author. “Dickens and Christmas,” Charles Dickens (1906). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Chesterton Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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