Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Saws Quotes

Passion makes every detail important.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Passion Quotes , Important Quotes

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Love Quotes , Princess Quotes

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Heart Quotes , Liberty Quotes

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Crazy Quotes , Economic Quotes

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Music Love Quotes

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Brother Quotes , Sleep Quotes

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fear Quotes , Blessing Quotes

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mother Quotes , Country Quotes

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Failure Quotes , Civilization Quotes

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

4 years ago

Message Copied

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

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

4 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Humility Quotes