• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes   1328
  • And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Ignorance Quotes
  • Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Moving Quotes , Wine Quotes
  • Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Running Quotes , Baby Quotes
  • What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes
  • For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Demand Quotes