Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#arc #chastity #does #flaming #joan

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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #arrived #filled #go #i

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#crush #him #man #probably #understand

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#better #does #even #feel #good

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #equals #feel #injustice #kind

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #cannot #generally #people #quarrel

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#honest #never #never forget #poor #poverty

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#catching #miss #only #sure #train