187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 21. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron ...
![An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 22. Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
![Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 23. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
![Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 24. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
![Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 25. Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
![Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 26. Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with ...
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- 27. Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does no ...
![Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does no .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 28. Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the mi ...
![Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the mi .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 29. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
![Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 30. But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Ken ...
![But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Ken .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 31. But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do n ...
![But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do n .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 32. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
![Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 33. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
![Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 34. Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really ...
![Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 35. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a r ...
![Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a r .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 36. Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
![Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 37. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat ...
![Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educat .... Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 38. Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
![Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 39. Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
![Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
- 40. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
![Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.. Gilbert K. Chesterton.](/img/view.gif)
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