Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 29, 1874

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton