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
drinking beer thank-god
We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
christmas summer children
Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.
beautiful people may
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
advice events realistic
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
children giving advice
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
men thinking tea
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
fighting men happy-marriage
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
christian jesus reality
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
world dear articles
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
failure civilization world
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
funny friendship god
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
believe loss political
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
stupid believe men
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.