G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories. He often wrote from a Christian perspective. See Also: The Ballad of the White Horse
Found 35 thoughts of G. K. Chesterton
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
G. K. Chesterton
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
G. K. Chesterton
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
G. K. Chesterton
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
G. K. Chesterton
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
G. K. Chesterton
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 a foreign land.
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Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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