Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 81. Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a s ...
- 82. My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
- 83. My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate ca ...
- 84. My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate ca ...
- 85. New roads; new ruts.
- 86. No man can be merry unless he is serious.
- 87. No man knows he is young while he is young.
- 88. No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu ...
- 89. Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal ...
- 90. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would ...
- 91. One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- 92. One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
- 93. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- 94. Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important ...
- 95. People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. I ...
- 96. People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- 97. People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bod ...
- 98. Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
- 99. Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a r ...
- 100. Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our g ...