Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 161. To be simple is the best thing in the world.
- 162. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi ...
- 163. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democrac ...
- 164. True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situatio ...
- 165. True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
- 166. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t ...
- 167. Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long a ...
- 168. Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ...
- 169. We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified ...
- 170. We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to ...
- 171. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
- 172. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
- 173. What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simp ...
- 174. When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gr ...
- 175. When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its v ...
- 176. When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that n ...
- 177. When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. Forgiving means to pa ...
- 178. White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, a ...
- 179. With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
- 180. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.