Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer

158 Quotes

Keberanian menjauh dari kematian dengan terus-menerus berada dalam jarak satu inci darinya.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Hal yang saya benci tentang pertengkaran adalah bahwa hal itu selalu mengganggu diskusi.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Orang miskin yang jujur terkadang bisa melupakan kemiskinan. Orang kaya yang jujur tidak akan pernah bisa melupakannya.

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.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Keberanian menjauh dari kematian dengan terus-menerus berada dalam jarak satu inci darinya.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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