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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The moderns do not realize modernity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
