Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

About Gilbert K. Chesterton

These are some quotes by English author Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, who lived between May 29, 1874 and June 14, 1936.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

New roads; new ruts.

New roads; new ruts.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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