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
christian religion morality
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
orthodoxy morality action
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
mean morality justified
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
christian hatred morality
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
morality states forbidden
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
home imagination morality
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
benefits morality rich
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.
desire morality desirable
There are some desires that are not desirable.
choices soul morality
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
believe sacred morality
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
men good-man morality
It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
men holy-places morality
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.
people scandal morality
There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.
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.