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
beautiful hope stars
If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
beautiful music-love speed
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
beauty broken-heart beautiful
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
love beautiful girl
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
love beautiful music-love
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
love beautiful two
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.
beautiful christmas home
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
beauty beautiful art
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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.
action believe falls however men unless
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
catching discovered miss train
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
christian difficult found ideal left tried
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
brute mere sort
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
man
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.