Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 141. The true object of human life is play.
- 142. The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
- 143. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
- 144. The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's ow ...
- 145. The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of f ...
- 146. The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
- 147. The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
- 148. Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
- 149. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only "instinct" I ...
- 150. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- 151. There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
- 152. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ...
- 153. There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes eve ...
- 154. There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
- 155. There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni ...
- 156. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it i ...
- 157. They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not c ...
- 158. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more ...
- 159. Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in its ...
- 160. To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.