Gilbert K. ChestertonHow can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be t… ▶371HumanityReading
Gilbert K. ChestertonAny one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for … ▶372Thought
Gilbert K. ChestertonAmericans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still… ▶372Thought
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.372Humanity
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German. ✨ Gilbert K. … ▶361HumorTruth
Gilbert K. ChestertonI need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.373Sadness
Gilbert K. ChestertonI have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.351Love
Gilbert K. ChestertonOnly friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.362Politics
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in … ▶351Sadness
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll government is an ugly necessity. ✨ A Short History of England. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.351PoliticsReading
Gilbert K. ChestertonCriticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?351Life
Gilbert K. ChestertonFree verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.351Thought
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ✨ The Man Who Was Thursday. Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffr… ▶362ReadingTime
Gilbert K. ChestertonA man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, t… ▶362LovePolitics
Gilbert K. ChestertonI still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.63, Simon and Schuster363Thought
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.363Philosophy
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.352Truth
Gilbert K. ChestertonOne of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.363SadnessTime
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. ✨ Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35363Sadness
Gilbert K. ChestertonA fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which… ▶374ThoughtTruth
Gilbert K. ChestertonYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.374Love
Gilbert K. ChestertonEven the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.175, Simon and Schuster363Truth
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.352Thought
Gilbert K. ChestertonWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ✨ Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907. … ▶374DeathHumanityReading
Gilbert K. ChestertonThoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.341HumanityThought
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains… ▶352HumanityLoveThought
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly … ▶353Truth
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.331Politics
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.353Love
Gilbert K. ChestertonDrink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but dri… ▶353DeathHumor
