'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
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.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!