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
rolling made drunkards
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
men imagination quality
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
pride men political
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
romance insecurity strange
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
powerful passion men
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
simplicity world modern
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
men boys never-quit
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
men becoming mass
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
mistake ideas nine
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
sea dust humanity
I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.
life lying waiting
Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
men mythology myth
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men
loyalty suicide men
Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
saws
Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.