Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 1. 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate ...
- 2. A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or not it is permanent, it claims p ...
- 3. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cos ...
- 4. A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author ...
- 5. A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
- 6. A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
- 7. A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son shoul ...
- 8. A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
- 9. A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- 10. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- 11. A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he h ...
- 12. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- 13. A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly re ...
- 14. A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- 15. A yawn is a silent shout.
- 16. Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
- 17. All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, ...
- 18. All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. B ...
- 19. All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- 20. Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their ...