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
grandmother animal may
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
sleep may architecture
Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
confusion may modern
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
men mad may
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
evil age may
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
may saint looks
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
thinking may crime
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
ideas catholic may
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
eugenics may nonsense
Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
anger men may
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
practice religion may
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
tired may orthodoxy
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
art simple may
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
men may said
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.