Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Horses

• The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Devil, Four

  1900 'The Donkey'.

• Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Thinking, Race

• Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Cutting, White

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

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