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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes | Quotes said by Gilbert K. Chesterton

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #1

    A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.


  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #2

    A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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    All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #4

    All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #5

    Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #6

    Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #7

    Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #8

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

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #9

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

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #10

    Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #11

    Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #12

    Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #13

    Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #14

    I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #15

    I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #16

    I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #17

    I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #18

    If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #19

    It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #20

    Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #21

    Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #22

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

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #23

    Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #24

    Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #25

    Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #26

    Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #27

    My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #28

    No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #29

    One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

  • Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote #30

    Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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