Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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.
Suffering
Troubled
Force
Forces
Pain
Hour
Night
Increase
Already
Mistake
Morning
Beseech
Hours
Dissolution
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheism is too theological.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton