Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pride, Against, Preach

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Whole, Used

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mother, Drunk, Saying

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Forever, Occupation

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Another, Seen

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Family, Freedom, Free

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power, True, Getting

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Shout, Yawn

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Time, Men

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Long, Win, Lose

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Interested, Properly

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Saying, Until, Knows

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Change, Alone, Idea

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Religion, Good, Joke

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sports, Playing, Golf

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mind, Again, Mouth

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Courage, Keep

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Health, Mind, Trying

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spiritual, Puns

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Him, Moral

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Tired, Book

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Art, After

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Brave, Middle

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Friends, Makes

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29, 1874

Died: June 14, 1936

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