Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Religion Quotes

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Practice Quotes , Ideas Quotes

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Women Quotes

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sunset Quotes , Nocturnal Quotes

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Funny Quotes , Religious Quotes

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Atheism Quotes , Masterpiece Quotes

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Law Quotes

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Matter Quotes , Sides Quotes

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Keys Quotes , Bangs Quotes

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Holy Places Quotes

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sports Quotes , Golf Quotes

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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