Quotations From GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

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• 41.

  Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "On Experience," All Is Grist (1931).
• 42.

  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 Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "On St. George Revivified," All I Survey (1933).
  
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• 43.

  What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "On Flags," Generally Speaking (1928).
• 44.

  A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Quoted in Illustrated London News (July 3, 1920).
  
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• 45.

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

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Humanitarianism and Strength," Intimate Journals (1908).
• 46.

  If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Book of Job," G.K.C. as M.C. (1929).
• 47.

  Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Celts and Celtophiles," Heretics (1905).
  
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• 48.

  The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. What's Wrong With the World, pt. 1, ch. 5 (1910).
• 49.

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

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Cockneys and Their Jokes," All Things Considered (1908).
  
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• 50.

  If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. What's Wrong With the World, pt. 4, ch. 14 (1910).