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
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
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Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?