Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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."
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"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
"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"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
"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
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"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
"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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