Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
- True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.…
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay…
- And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
- The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.