3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
3 December 2020 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?
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
