Author Topic: ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes ~ (Read 6944 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #60 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:40:17 AM »

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

MysteRy · « **Reply #61 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:40:47 AM »

Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

MysteRy · « **Reply #62 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:41:20 AM »

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

MysteRy · « **Reply #63 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:41:52 AM »

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

MysteRy · « **Reply #64 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:42:19 AM »

When people stop believing in God they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.

MysteRy · « **Reply #65 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:42:49 AM »

The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.

MysteRy · « **Reply #66 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:43:29 AM »

I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

MysteRy · « **Reply #67 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:44:00 AM »

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #68 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:44:30 AM »

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #69 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:45:04 AM »

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #70 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:45:36 AM »

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #71 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:46:06 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #72 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:46:36 AM »

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

MysteRy · « **Reply #73 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:47:08 AM »

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

MysteRy · « **Reply #74 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:47:38 AM »

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

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