101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship ☰

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton great
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton rules
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton you
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summers day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton hope
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton courage
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton mind
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton right
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton money
Ive searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton sea
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton music
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton poetry
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton america
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton living
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton war
Journalism largely consists of saying Lord Jones is Dead to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton people
All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
It isnt that they cant see the solution. It is that they cant see the problem.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on ones own country as a foreign land.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton travel
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton happiness
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton growth
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton travel
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton respect
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton wisdom
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton teaching
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton freedom
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton success
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton intelligence
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton god
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton god
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton play
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton men
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton god
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton time
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton education
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton education
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton democracy
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton time
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton true
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton education
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton poet
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton god
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton experience
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton you
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton science
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton self
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton sin
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton age
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton women
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton christianity
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton present
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton education
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton health
In matters of truth the fact that you dont want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton truth
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton war
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton god
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton time
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton buddhism
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton life
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton war
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton reading
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton man
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton art
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton men
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton bad
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton men
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton power
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton love
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton rain
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton christian
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton right
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton men

Share your thoughts on Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes with the community:

Maybe you are looking for Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes, Gilbert K. Chesterton sayings?

Here are quotes most suitable for various topics. In the web you can find use by keywords: quotes Gilbert K. Chesterton Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes Gilbert K. Chesterton sayings Gilbert K. Chesterton famous quotes Gilbert K. Chesterton best quotes

101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship