G.K. Chesterton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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He had that combination of savoir-faire with a sort of well-groomed coarseness which is not uncommon in young doctors.
why, nobody's ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve - and all as dead as mutton.
People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.
And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.
But our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty. If
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.
Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.
The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age
Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down.
{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can't.
The men of the east may search the scrolls,
For sure fates and fame,
But the men that drink the blood of God go singing to their shame.
For sure fates and fame,
But the men that drink the blood of God go singing to their shame.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.
He liked as he liked; he seems to have liked everybody, but especially those whom everybody disliked him for liking.
I sincerely maintain that Nature-worship is more morally dangerous than the most vulgar man-worship of the cities;
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
It is very hard for a man to defend anything of which he is entirely convinced. It is comparatively easy when he is only partially convinced.
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
The men of the East may spell the stars,
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.
The fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
Then I realized that for eighteen hundred years the Church Militant had not been a pageant, but a riot - and a suppressed riot. There,
War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness.
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
We may find men wrong in what they thought they were, but we cannot find them wrong in what they thought they thought.
He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind.
- Father Brown
- Father Brown
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
The obvious truth is that the moment any matter has passed through the human mind it is finally and for ever spoilt for all purposes of science.
The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.
The sun has set," said Horne Fisher, in the same terrible tones, "and he will never see it rise again.
There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.
The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.
Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.