Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.
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.
Earth
Return
Revise
Give
Conditions
Patrick
Look
Modern
Henry
Might
Economic
Alternative
Looks
Impossible
Alternatives
Giving
Death
Observation
Order
Vast
Around
Merely
Manifestly
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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
The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
