Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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.
England
Dragon
Drank
Dragons
George
Beer
Killed
Ale
Saint
Pint
English
Pints
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of human life is play.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man knows he is young while he is young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
Gilbert K. Chesterton
