G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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

  G. K. Chesterton

  Tags in Wound

• It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty

• The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Equality, Elections

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Humor

• The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Tags in Conservatives, Liberals

• “My country, right or wrong” is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying “My mother, drunk or sober.”

  G. K. Chesterton

  Tags in Patriotism

• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Compromise, Politics

  Tags in Government

• Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Risk

• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Advice, Success

G. K. Chesterton (249)

Birth:	29th May, 1874
Death:	14th June, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, England. He was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. He is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." He wrote several novels include: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Ball and the Cross, The Flying Inn, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Secret of Father Brown, and The Scandal of Father Brown. The Ballad of the White Horse(poem).

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