Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes — Page 31

Writer, Journalist

Grateful

“Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?”

Two Eye Hands

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Love

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.”

Kind Clubs Affection

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Creative

“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.”

Men Creative Extravagance

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Grateful

“The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.”

Gratitude Appreciation Weed

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Grateful

“The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.”

Dark Kings Christmas

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Wise

“Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.”

Wise Ocean Beach

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Philosophical

“A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”

Men Philosophy Moon

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Philosophical

“If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.”

Thinking Squares Mutual Benefit

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Funny

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”

Political Politics Poverty

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Funny

“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.”

Real Funny Humorous

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Inspired

“And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.”

England Mets Graves

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Spiritual

“When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.”

Literature Obscurity Invisibility

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