G. K. Chesterton Quotes
British writer, critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories.
(1874 - 1936)
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'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.'
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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A liberated woman is one who rises up and says to her menfolk, 'I will not be dictated to,' and proceeds to become a stenographer
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
[Work]
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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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.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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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.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
[Life]
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
[Intelligence]
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A yawn is a silent shout.
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