3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton 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.
