Gilbert K. Chesterton
64 quotations
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.
My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.