Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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.
London
Riddle
Explanation
Paris
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
