Advertisements
Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Life Quotes
Funny Quotes
Motivational Quotes
Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it’s something you ought to do yourself. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you know what a man’s doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he’s doing keep behind him. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don’t, as a rule. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)