Also known as G. K. Chesterton.
Best British genius ever.
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?”
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.”
“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.”
“The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.”
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would not let me. But let the colours you lay on be violent, gorgeous, terrific colours, because my feelings are like that.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.”
“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
― G.K. Chesterton
― G.K. Chesterton
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