G. K. Chesterton Quotes Page 4


 
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Best 117 Quotes by G. K. Chesterton – Page 4 of 4

Heretics Quotes

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

Heretics

Introduction to The Book of Job Quotes

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”

Introduction to The Book of Job

Lord Kitchener Quotes

“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”

Lord Kitchener

On Bright Old Things and Other Things Quotes

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”

On Bright Old Things and Other Things

On Lying in Bed Quotes

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”

On Lying in Bed

On Running After Ones Hat Quotes

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

On Running After Ones Hat

Orthodoxy Quotes

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

Orthodoxy

“As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.”

Orthodoxy

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

Orthodoxy

“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

Orthodoxy

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

Orthodoxy

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”

Orthodoxy

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

Orthodoxy

The Blue Cross Quotes

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”

The Blue Cross

The Club of Queer Trades Quotes

“Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.”

The Club of Queer Trades

The Everlasting Man Quotes

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

The Everlasting Man

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“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”

The Everlasting Man

The Innocence of Father Brown Quotes

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

The Innocence of Father Brown

The Man Who Was Thursday Quotes

“Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

The Man Who Was Thursday

The Speaker Quotes

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

The Speaker

The Superstition of Divorce Quotes

“For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to remember the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say.”

The Superstition of Divorce

The War of the Usurpers Quotes

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

The War of the Usurpers

Tremendous Trifles Quotes

“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

Tremendous Trifles

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

Tremendous Trifles

Twelve Types Quotes

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”

Twelve Types

“The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”

Twelve Types

Varied Types Quotes

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

Varied Types

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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.”


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