Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Hate

• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

• They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Hate, Men

• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Time, Hate

• These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Friendship, Father, Hate

• Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Hate, Men

• The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Argument, Discussion

• If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Enemy, Enough

• Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Philosophy, Real

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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