Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““curiously enough, it is the man who likes things as they are who really makes them better. The”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He's a thousand kinds of wonderful and he prefers his men much like I do-strong and dark.” — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great.” — Arnold Glasgow Copy Share Image
“-though sometimes it seems to mention a man who simply acts like a decent human being gets undue praise” — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
“I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.” — Hal Ackerman Copy Share Image
“For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.” — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
“...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image