187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 61. In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a p ...
- 62. It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
- 63. It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we lau ...
- 64. It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
- 65. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
- 66. It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress, if his di ...
- 67. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord James is dead" to people who never knew Lord James was a ...
- 68. Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the ...
- 69. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- 70. Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
- 71. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- 72. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- 73. Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil ...
- 74. Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a ...
- 75. Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the ...
- 76. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b ...
- 77. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- 78. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we per ...
- 79. Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an inj ...
- 80. Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is t ...
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