Famous Quotes / Gilbert K. Chesterton
187 Quotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 121. The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a chu ...
- 122. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- 123. The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
- 124. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- 125. The mere brute pleasure of reading -- the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
- 126. The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglar ...
- 127. The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with aw ...
- 128. The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristo ...
- 129. The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- 130. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
- 131. The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
- 132. The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential s ...
- 133. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
- 134. The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
- 135. The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be intere ...
- 136. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being gov ...
- 137. The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
- 138. The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, beca ...
- 139. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
- 140. The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.