Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Love

• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

• You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Fighting, Fighting On

• Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Mean, Humility

• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Faith, Religious

• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Children, Justice

  "The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Appreciation, Gratitude

• 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.

• One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, World, Way

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

• The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Pleasure, Crisis

• Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Beautiful, Music Love

• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Experience, Exhausted

• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Beautiful, Two

• The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

• A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Fun, Sorry

• A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Good Man

• 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

• I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Princess, Dragons

• Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Decline

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, God, Believe

• Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Pits

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