Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer

158 Quotes

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Dunia tidak akan pernah kelaparan karena keinginan akan keajaiban, tetapi keinginan akan keajaiban.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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