Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”

“White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”

“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”

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

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”

“The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.”

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”