Children Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.…

— 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

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit,…

— 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 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

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton