• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes   1328
  • Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Memories Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Men Quotes
  • Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Running Quotes , Baby Quotes
  • We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
    • 5 years ago



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