Best Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotations
- The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. Bravery
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. Any
- We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. Door
- The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. Bigamists
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as… Adventure
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. Clever
- In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to… Fact
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was… Along
- We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. Bigot
- Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. All
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Advice
- It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. Emotion
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. Forget
- There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Broken Heart
- With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. Any
- Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Happiness
- All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. All
- Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. Fable
- If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. Cannot Crush
- Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. Book
- The present condition of fame is merely fashion. Condition
- To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. All
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners… All
- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. Alive
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. Capability
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