Quotes from GK Chesterton
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- GK Chesterton
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
- GK Chesterton
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- GK Chesterton
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
- GK Chesterton
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
- GK Chesterton
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
- GK Chesterton
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
- GK Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- GK Chesterton
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
- GK Chesterton
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
- GK Chesterton
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
- GK Chesterton
War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
- GK Chesterton