“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Famous Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
“The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle”
“In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.”
“The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
“Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.”
“A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.”
“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
“Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.”
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”
“By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.”
“A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.”