Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Small, Valley

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Faith, Hope

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Lost, May

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rain, Down, Rather

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christmas, Time, God

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Intelligence, Woman, Find

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, True, Human

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hurt, Insult, Second

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thankful, Happiness, Gratitude

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Difficult, Found, Tried

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, Love, Less

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Gratitude, Whether

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance, Virtue

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Soul, Body, Books

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Society, Soul

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Line, Morality

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Experience, Long

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry, Silent, Subject

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government, Democracy, Means

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage, War, Adventure

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nothing, Real, Wrong

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Him, Word

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Sense, Less

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Politics, Giving, Democracy

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29, 1874

Died: June 14, 1936

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