Famous Quotes / G.K. Chesterton
26 Quotations by G.K. Chesterton
- 1. 'My country right or wrong' is like saying 'my mother drunk or sober'.
- 2. A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- 3. Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.
- 4. Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- 5. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desparate.
- 6. I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
- 7. If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
- 8. Journalism consists largely in saying Lord Jones died to people who never knew that Lord Jones was a ...
- 9. Leisure is being allowed to do nothing
- 10. Love means to love that which is unloveable,
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- 11. Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it we ...
- 12. No man knows he is young while he is young
- 13. Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generall ...
- 14. One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world ...
- 15. Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- 16. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are ge ...
- 17. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untri ...
- 18. The classes that wash most are those that work least.
- 19. The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In thi ...
- 20. The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.