A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ U…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
824 citations
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.
Reading
13

More Author Quotes

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change … ▶
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter t … ▶
Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a h … ▶
The test of happiness is gratitude.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. ✨ Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes