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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher, and literary critic known for his prolific output, quick wit, and paradoxical style of argument. The creator of the beloved Father Brown detective stories, Chesterton wrote on theology, philosophy, and social issues with a joyful exuberance that earned him the nickname "the prince of paradox."

“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage

All Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age

“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

Truth

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

God

“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love

“One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teacher

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Respect

“Half a truth is better than no politics.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Politics

“White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

God

“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

God

“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men

“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men

“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

Courage