72 quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

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“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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

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“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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

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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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

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“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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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“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“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

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“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The only defensible war is a war of defense.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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

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“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

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