Famous Quotes / G. K. Chesterton
47 Quotations by G. K. Chesterton
- 21. If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power her ...
- 22. If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- 23. It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might ...
- 24. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- 25. Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
- 26. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- 27. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we per ...
- 28. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- 29. People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bod ...
- 30. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- 31. Seemingly from the dawn of man all nations have had governments; and all nations have been ashamed o ...
- 32. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are ge ...
- 33. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untri ...
- 34. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- 35. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- 36. The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
- 37. The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- 38. The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- 39. There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, ...
- 40. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...