People Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it…

— 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

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a…

— 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

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton