Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 101. Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover ...
- 102. Silence is the unbearable repartee.
- 103. Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. S ...
- 104. Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
- 105. Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simpl ...
- 106. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense ...
- 107. The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitali ...
- 108. The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man oug ...
- 109. The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vic ...
- 110. The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vic ...
- 111. The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
- 112. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untr ...
- 113. The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
- 114. The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In thi ...
- 115. The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found ...
- 116. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for ...
- 117. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real ...
- 118. The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we hav ...
- 119. The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
- 120. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.