Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes — Page 22

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”

Men Sleep Humanity

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Love

“The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.”

Book Flower Silly

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Creative

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

Art Beautiful

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Melancholic

“Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.”

Bed Dawn

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Philosophical

“But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.”

Men Independent Convince Us

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Hopeful

“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.”

Inspiration Time Live Life

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Philosophical

“To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.”

Mind Humans

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Spiritual

“If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.”

Men Dust

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Philosophical

“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.”

Mean God Wine

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Funny

“Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.”

Teaching Wine Beer

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Love

“He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.”

Girl Cutting Garden

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Angry

“I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.”

Action Social Robbing

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