Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Pay Quotes

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Peasants Quotes

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Reality Quotes , Choices Quotes

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Home Quotes , Might Quotes

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Believe Quotes , Difficult Quotes

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Self Quotes , Criticism Quotes

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Self Quotes , Government Quotes

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Hate Quotes , Argument Quotes

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Lying Quotes , Book Quotes

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dark Quotes , Devil Quotes

A yawn is a silent shout.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Yawning Quotes , Boredom Quotes

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Baby Quotes , Children Quotes

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Real Quotes

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Self Quotes

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mind Quotes , Boring Quotes

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Age Quotes , Unions Quotes

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Soul Quotes