Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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.
Men
Average
Head
Woman
Else
Order
Women
Orders
Nothing
Obey
Something
Likes
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
