Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober' — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — 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
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men. — 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
