Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes about
cosmos would-be hammers
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
pride thunder
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
church states church-and-state
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
imagination mind forget
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
defeat defeated crosses
The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
kings equality men
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
belief torture martyr
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
suicide thinking today
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
laughter humor ideas
The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.
able mood
A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.
fighting men happy-marriage
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
stories highest good-story
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.