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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
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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 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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.