Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Trying Quotes

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Home Quotes , Mean Quotes

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Weather Quotes , Tree Quotes

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Running Quotes , Differences Quotes

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Faith Quotes , Believe Quotes

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Respect Quotes , Real Quotes

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Ignorant Quotes , Fraud Quotes

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Live Life Quotes

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Latin Quotes , Greek Quotes

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , People Quotes

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Tyrants Quotes , Two Quotes

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Kings Quotes , Men Quotes

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Literature Quotes

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mean Quotes , Two Quotes

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Clever Quotes , Stupid Quotes

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Able Quotes

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Truth Quotes , Men Quotes

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Strong Quotes , Men Quotes

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Clever Quotes , Men Quotes