Men Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton