But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON