Quotations From GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

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• 21.

  It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Generally Speaking, "On Sentiment," (1928).
• 22.

  The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Gregory, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 1 (1908).
• 23.

  There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Heretics, ch. 3 (1905).
• 24.

  Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Heretics, ch. 7 (1905).
  
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• 25.

  A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Methuselahite," All Things Considered (1908).
• 26.

  The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Logic of Elfland," Orthodoxy (1908).
• 27.

  With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 8 (1908).
• 28.

  All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Giant," Tremendous Trifles (1909).
  
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• 29.

  Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Glory of Grey," Alarms and Discursions (1910).
  
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• 30.

  Your next-door neighbour ... is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Irishman," The Uses of Diversity (1920).
  
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