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
done danger ifs
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
mean home ifs
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
thinking temptation ifs
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
timeless exaggeration ifs
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
firsts stories ifs
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
men world ifs
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
problem ifs solutions
You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
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.
funny food sarcasm
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
art sunset bad-ass
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.