Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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 fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Real, Leaving, Idea

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

Saying, Until, Knows

A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Shout, Yawn

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

Long, Win, Lose

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

Sports, Playing, Golf

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cannot, Quarrel, Argue

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 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

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

Religion, Good, Joke

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

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Poor, Injustice

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Spiritual, Puns

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

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Healthy, Recovery

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Worst, Kid, Perhaps

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Enjoy, Healthy, Sentiment

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Travel, Country, Whole

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Mean, Manners

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29, 1874

Died: June 14, 1936

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