Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 29, 1874

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Gilbert K. Chesterton