Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Impulse

• The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Gun, Power

• There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Men, Nuts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

• A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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