Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Genius

• Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Genius, Might

  "Orthodoxy" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Ch. IV), 1908.

• Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Creative, Extravagance

• America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Encouragement, America, Genius

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