Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When [a politician] is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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