Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Modesty

• A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Feminist, Modesty, Being A Woman

• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

• We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Humility, People

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

• Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Simple, Faces

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