Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes.

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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton