Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
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"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
"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
"Half a truth is better than no politics."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"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
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"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
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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