Seems Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we…

— 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

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only…

— 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

The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy…

— 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

It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made…

— 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

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