Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Life

• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

• 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

• I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Life, Presence Of Mind

• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Funny, Life

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Happiness, Smart

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Time, Hate

• To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Men, Idealist

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

• Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Lying, Waiting

  "Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VI : The Paradoxes of Christianity, 1908.

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