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
believe happy-times today
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
life time hate
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
firsts found first-time
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
time sleep each-day
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
writing good-times easier
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
timeless
Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
timeless exaggeration ifs
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
time men orthodox
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
time sleep thinking
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
time men young
No man knows he is young while he is young.
time live-life inspiration
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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.