Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

“Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.”

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”

“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”