g k chesterton quotes

A yawn is a silent shout.
-- G.K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

-- G. K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G.K. Chesterton

“My country, right or wrong” is a thing that no patriot would think
of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother,
drunk or sober."
-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant"

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
-- G.K. Chesterton

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become
their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend
of both parties tactfully interferes.
-- G.K. Chesterton

'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."

-- G. K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the
truth about its author.

-- G. K. Chesterton

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the
man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
-- G.K. Chesterton

You will find me drinking gin
In the lowest kind of inn,
Because I am a rigid Vegetarian.
-- G.K. Chesterton

If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
-- G.K. Chesterton

You will find me drinking gin
In the lowest kind of inn,
Because I am a rigid Vegetarian.
-- G.K. Chesterton

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend
of both parties tactfully interferes.
-- G.K. Chesterton

A yawn is a silent shout.
-- G.K. Chesterton

“My country, right or wrong” is a thing that no patriot would think
of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother,
drunk or sober."
-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant"

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become
their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into
the wrong things.

-- G.K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G.K. Chesterton

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the
man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
-- G.K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
-- G.K. Chesterton

If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
-- G.K. Chesterton