More - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

New roads; new ruts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Progress

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Adversity

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Broadway

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Life Quote of the Day

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Cosmos Knowledge

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Cell

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Adversity

St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.

Gilbert Keith 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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton