G. K. Chesterton Quotes

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast'; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:love beauty

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:love

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

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:happiness sadness

“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:happiness

“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:truth honesty lie

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:truth

“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:truth education

“For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:women men

“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:women work obedience

“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:freedom fear

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