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
government abolish
Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.
art philosophy reality
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
song war men
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
home gentleman dining
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
wife house dull
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
book writing past
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
family christian prayer
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
said idiotic offers
Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.
eye two hands
Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
faith moral sanity
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
forgotten
Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
artist creative criticism
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
book writing years
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.