GK Chesterton Quotes:
1.”I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton
2.”The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
– G.K. Chesterton
3.”Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
– G.K. Chesterton
4.”The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
– G.K. Chesterton
5.”An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
– G.K. Chesterton
6.”The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.”
G.K. Chesterton
7.”The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
– G.K. Chesterton
8.”To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
9.”The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”
– G.K. Chesterton
10.”The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.”
– G.K. Chesterton
11.”Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
– G.K. Chesterton
12.”A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
– G.K. Chesterton
13.”The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
– G.K. Chesterton
14.”The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
– G.K. Chesterton
15.”There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
16.”A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
17.”The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
– G.K. Chesterton
18.”It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”
– G.K. Chesterton
19.”There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
– G.K. Chesterton
20.”The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
– G.K. Chesterton
21.”Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
– G.K. Chesterton
22.”When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”
– G.K. Chesterton
23.”Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
– G.K. Chesterton
24.”You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
25.”A good man’s work is effected by doing what he does, a woman’s by being what she is.”
– G.K. Chesterton
26.”The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”
– G.K. Chesterton
27.”The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
– G.K. Chesterton
28.”The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
– G.K. Chesterton
29.”A dead thing goes with the stream; only a living thing can go against it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
30.”To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
– G.K. Chesterton
31.”The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom.”
– G.K. Chesterton
32.”There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
– G.K. Chesterton
33.”I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.”
– G.K. Chesterton
34.”The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
– G.K. Chesterton
35.”The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.”
– G.K. Chesterton
36.”I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
37.”There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”
– G.K. Chesterton
38.”It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
39.”To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
40.”The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
– G.K. Chesterton
41.”A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– G.K. Chesterton
42.”I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
– G.K. Chesterton
43.”Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline.”
– G.K. Chesterton
44.”And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”
– G.K. Chesterton
45.”When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
– G.K. Chesterton
46.”The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
– G.K. Chesterton
47.”Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
– G.K. Chesterton
48.”The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.”
– G.K. Chesterton
49.When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
– G.K. Chesterton
50.”Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
– G.K. Chesterton
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