Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

1874-1936, British Author
quotes
145
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“New roads; new ruts.”
Progress
“Silence is the unbearable repartee.”
Silence
“Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.”
Buddhism
“No man knows he is young while he is young.”
Youth
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
Marriage
“The present condition of fame is merely fashion.”
Fame
“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
Analysis
“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.”
Angels
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
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“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”
Argument
“It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.”
Emotions
“You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.”
Fights and Fighting
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
Arts and Artists
“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”
Temperament
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
Love
“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”
Status
“The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.”
Gold
“I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.”
Conflict
“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”
Speakers and Speaking
“My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.”
Patriotism
“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”
Cosmos
“There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.”
Interest
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
Hypocrisy
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
Love
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
Teachers and Teaching
“If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.”
Pride
“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
Adversity
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
Intuition