Quotes by
G. K. Chesterton |
1874-1936 , English writer & critic
English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays.
He was big, standing at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 130kg.
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Quotations
| • | The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. 16 |
| • | To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. 16 |
| • | A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. 13 |
| • | Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. 13 |
| • | If there were no God, there would be no atheists. 10 |
| • | There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. 7 |
| • | Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. 7 |
| • | Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. 7 |
| • | Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. 7 |
| • | The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. 7 |
| • | There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. 6 |
| • | Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. 6 |
| • | Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. 6 |
| • | When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. 6 |
| • | It is in the very nature of the best sort of joke to be the worst sort of insult if it is not taken as a joke. 6 |
| • | It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. 5 |
| • | There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast,” that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. 4 |
| • | The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. 4 |
| • | I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. 4 |
| • | There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 4 |
| • | There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. 4 |
| • | It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. 4 |
| • | Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity. 4 |
| • | Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. 3 |
| • | An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. 3 |
| • | Journalism largely consists of saying “Lord Jones is Dead ” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. 3 |
| • | The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. 3 |
| • | Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. 2 |
| • | A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. 2 |
| • | Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. 2 |
| • | There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. 2 |
| • | Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. 2 |
| • | The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. 2 |
| • | London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. 2 |
| • | All government is an ugly necessity. 2 |
| • | When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. 2 |
| • | One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place. 2 |
| • | There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. 2 |
Funny Quotes
| • | Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. 3 |
