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
mean point-break soul
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
laughing soul fancy
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.
spiritual men soul
The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
art soul faces
For the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
soul damnation cases
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
teaching personality soul
As to the doubt of the soul I discover it to be false: a mood not a conclusion. My conclusion is the Faith. Corporate, organized, a personality, teaching. A thing, not a theory. It.
friendship men soul
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
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.
soul pleasure worthy
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
thinking self soul
One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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.