Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 2

English - Writer May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

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, Wisdom, Man, Men, Uncle, Perfect

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, People, Seriously, Educated

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Virtue, Which, To Love, Means

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Lost, Realize, Way, May, To Love

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage, War, Adventure, Like, Going

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Bible, People, Enemies, To Love

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Always, Anything, Sensational

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

People, Activity, Mean, Mental, Call

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, Perfect, Long, Enough

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, Man, Grandmother, Good Man, Shoot

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Red, Black, Fierce, White, Colour

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness, Gratitude, Thankful, Thought

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

Alone, Change, You, Leave, Things, Idea

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, World, Journalism, Seen, Fiction

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, Interesting, Us, Things, Being

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

Men, Believe, Fate, Act, Them, However

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doubt, Creed, Buddhism

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Beautiful, Art, Picture, Frame, Most

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eyes, Man, Soul, Feet, New, New Year's

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Friends, Door, Next, Enemies, Our

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry, Silent, Cheese, Been, Subject

A yawn is a silent shout.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silent, Shout, Yawn

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success, Best, Respect, Advice, Doing

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Problem, Solution, See

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man, Hide, Head, Hole, Cosmos, His

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wrong, Like, Something, Mean, Chastity

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