Quote

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Biographer
Crime Writer
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Historian
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G. K. C.
Running
Core
Nursery
Happens
Exist
Observe
Ends
Conditions
Nurse
Ideas
Happen
Runs
Happiness
Fairy
Read
Tales
Peace
Ethics
Idea
Condition

More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Image
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
Gilbert K. Chesterton