Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
Born: May 29, 1874
Died: Jun 14, 1936
Great Life Man Men Only You
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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
History You People Nothing See About Know Make Sort Who
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ego Distant Cosmos More Self Never Understand Than Any May Star
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. Gilbert K. Chesterton
People Impartiality Indifference Mental Simply Partiality Call May Mean Activity
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
Happiness Life Time Broken Soul Happy Men Saved Nursery Something Only He Still Been His Loved Loves Who Two
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
War Saying Good Man Son Mother Says Attack Over Until She Cliff Fallen His Patriot Warn Should Who
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music Dinner Both Insult Cook Violinist
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Better Half Statesmen Seems Compromise Than Modern Bread Mean Really Used Whole Among Loaf
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Teacher Simply Dogmatic Teaching Who
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 You Matters Publish Ought Nine Out Proof Something Ten Fact Times Want
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy You Revolution Must Never Establish Order
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture Signed Instead Go Arrived Up Next Acting Planning Filled Right
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art Great Sunset Architecture Fireworks Nocturnal Like Perhaps After Really
We 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Good Own Manners Our Good Manners Morals Always Justified Mean Mankind Enforcing Belong
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty Kid Worst Worst Kind Kind Sin Perhaps Intellectual Certainly
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Earth Only Exist Subject Person The Only Thing Uninterested Uninteresting Thing
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great Knowledge Man Soul Youth World Hopeless Power Every Everything Hoping Inspiration Through Adventures Period End End Of The World Survives Middle-Aged Which Episode
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
Alone You Change Conservatism Torrent Idea Leave Them Based Thing Things
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man Conservative Thought Own Radical Flower Conserve Conserving Everything Somehow Except Could Generally He Without His Affecting Up Wanted Anything Root Meant Reason Who Pull
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humiliation Healthy Must Recovery Go Any Certain
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Healthy Sentiment Enjoy Jam
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
Great Age Book Long Past Too Once Would Would-Be About Pocket Entirely Poems Write Epics Planned Found Things
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men Nation Finding About Rather Sharply Foreign Affects Familiar Familiar Things Place Them Much Things
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Joan Sexual Arc Something Chastity Wrong Like Does Flaming Mean Means
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny Man Matter Fall Down Else Dignified Laugh Religious Only Absurd Because Anything Anything Else Should Why Gravely
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great Man Everything Throws He Because Artist Moment Who Bomb
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man Distinguished Most Vulgar Always Very Desire
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