Real Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— 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 have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who…

— 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

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch…

— 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

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good…

— 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

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

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is…

— 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

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving…

— 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