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Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... If a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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 (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It seems to me,’ said the other, ‘That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.’ By George!’ said Syme facing round and looking at him, ‘What a clever chap you are! (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Free verse’? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch ‘free architecture’ (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Oh, most unhappy man,’ he cried, ‘try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.’ My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,’ said Gregory (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)