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
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.
experience and-love exhausted
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
love-you
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
love hate men
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
love men good-man
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
love pleasure crisis
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
love fun sorry
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.
cute marriage funny-love
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
leaving liberty lovers
Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.
love men decline
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
love men pits
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
love princess dragons
I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.