Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Horse Quotes , Devil Quotes

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Government Quotes , Aristocracy Quotes

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Business Quotes , Socialism Quotes

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wine Quotes , Water Quotes

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Catholic Quotes , Doubt Quotes

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Family Quotes , Christian Quotes

The supreme adventure is being BORN

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , New Year Quotes

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Passion makes every detail important.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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