Author Topic: ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes ~ (Read 6948 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:48:10 AM »

When you break the big laws you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:48:40 AM »

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:49:14 AM »

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:49:44 AM »

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:50:22 AM »

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:52:21 AM »

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:52:52 AM »

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:53:25 AM »

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:53:56 AM »

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:54:26 AM »

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:54:57 AM »

Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:55:29 AM »

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:56:01 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:56:30 AM »

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:58:08 AM »

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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