Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quote link. Other quotes about: bad truth good: "A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art sun: "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light: "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
Quote link.: "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong: "A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
Quote link.: "Coincidences are spiritual puns."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad government: "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
Quote link.: "Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something: "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person courage: "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something time men life love soul: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human god freedom: "Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe: "I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe men: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work god man life sun woman: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "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."
Quote link.: "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good religion: "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: gratitude happiness: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Quote link. Other quotes about: war: "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something nothing mind: "Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god: "Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history nothing: "People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make."
Quote link.: "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people love: "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ: "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe men: "The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book nature words fact: "The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something important: "There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe god men man father evil belief soul: "The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost love: "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."
Quote link. Other quotes about: respect wish perfect: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human mind: "Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god friend friends: "We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find truth: "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it."

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