--- title: "5 Weather Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton" description: "5 Weather quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more Weather sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_communication_there-is-also-an-insulting-speech-about_342810.png" --- > [There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/there-is-also-an-insulting-speech-about-one-grey-day-just-like/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b5/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_communication_there-is-also-an-insulting-speech-about_342810.png) > [I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-am-myself-so-exceedingly-nordic-as-far-as-physical-constitution-is/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/504/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_action_i-am-myself-so-exceedingly-nordic-as-far_537581.png) > [ \[V\]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode… an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/v-ariety-of-climate-should-always-go-with-stability-of-abode-an/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d99/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_abode_v-ariety-of-climate-should-always-go-wit_2384746.png) > [...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/i-will-praise-the-english-climate-till-i-die-even-if-i-die-of-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_america_i-will-praise-the-english-climate-till-i_2457273.png) > [We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/we-all-feel-the-riddle-of-the-earth-without-anyone-to-point-it-out/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_clouds_we-all-feel-the-riddle-of-the-earth-with_3030117.png) ## Other authors on Weather - [Mark Twain 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/mark-twain/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-russell-lowell-46720.jpg) James Russell Lowell 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/james-russell-lowell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/charles-dickens/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-palahniuk-24118.jpg) Chuck Palahniuk 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/chuck-palahniuk/) - [Benjamin Franklin 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/benjamin-franklin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-al-gore-10150.jpg) Al Gore 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/al-gore/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-fry-87000.jpg) Stephen Fry 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/stephen-fry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jane-austen-47065.jpg) Jane Austen 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/jane-austen/) - [Israelmore Ayivor 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/israelmore-ayivor/) ## More by Gilbert K. Chesterton > [The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aim-of-good-prose-words-is-to-mean-what-they-say-the-aim-of-good/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/youth-is-always-too-serious-and-just-now-it-is-too-serious-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-does-not-mean-a-dead-town-it-does-not-mean-that-the-living/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-shorter-to-state-the-things-forbidden-than-the-things-permitted/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 experience. Jokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/everyone-seems-to-assume-that-the-unscrupulous-parts-of-journalism/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-scotland-has-a-double-dose-of-the-poison-called-heredity-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/faith-is-always-at-a-disadvantage-it-is-a-perpetually-defeated-thing/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-triangle-of-truisms-of-father-mother-and-child-cannot-be/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/criticism-is-only-words-about-words-and-of-what-use-are-words-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-we-suffer-from-today-is-humility-in-the-wrong-place-the-old/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/plato-was-only-a-bernard-shaw-who-unfortunately-made-his-jokes-in/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The word good has many meanings...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-word-good-has-many-meanings/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/music-with-dinner-is-an-insult-both-to-the-cook-and-the-violinist/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/eugenics-asserts-that-all-men-must-be-so-stupid-that-they-cannot/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/weather/gilbert-k-chesterton/#itemlist", "name": "5 Weather Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gilbert K. 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