Quotes
Quotes - Chesterton
For real love is an intense realisation of the "separateness" of all our souls.
It may be that love turned to hate is terribly common in sexual matters: it may be that hate turned to love is not uncommon in the rivalries of race or class. But any philosophy about the sexes that begins with anything but the mutual attraction of the sexes, begins with a fallacy; and all its historical comparisons are as irrelevant and impertinent as puns.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
