Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happy, Miserable, Drink

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Young, Once

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Acting, Next, Planning

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, God, Woman

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truth, Fact, Times

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Literature, Fiction, Necessity

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Health, Alone

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great, Small, Seems

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Men, Wisdom

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music, Insult, Both

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unless, Gods, Appear

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

History, Nothing

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Forget, Rich, Sometimes

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Away, Sense, Scientific

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fashion, Present, Fame

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Purpose, Common

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Between, Difference, Cell

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

End, Thought, Call

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Worship, Obscurity

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Seriously, Taking

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rule, England, Graves

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Living, Move

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Funny, Laugh, Down

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

True, Almost, Large

New roads; new ruts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 29, 1874

Died: June 14, 1936

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