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
clever stupid men
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
spirituality cry cried
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
reality facts spirituality
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
long spirituality mystery
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
men gun power
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
reality men progress
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
nature spring environment
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
nature book enchantment
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
experience and-love exhausted
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
faith men bows
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
beer together fit
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
beer dragons saint-george
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
love-you
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
silence unbearable silence-is
Silence is the unbearable repartee.