I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTON