Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
sunset oscars pay
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.
men evil catholic
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
christmas sex wine
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
nature inspiration world
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
class
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
inspiring travel home
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
dream luck way
Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.
book reading simple
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
imagination strange function
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
differences listening hearing
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
inspirational inspiring peace
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
looks interviews facts
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
two people dogma
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
love children justice
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.