Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Mothers

• The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Mother Nature, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

• The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Children, Father

• What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Father, Anarchy

• Progress is the mother of problems.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Progress, Problem

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.65, Ignatius Press

• Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Girl, Mother, Home

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• Humility is the mother of giants.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Humility, Giants

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

• A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Peace, War

  "The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

• The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Essence, Steps

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

• The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Men

• Progress is the mother of all problems.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Progress, Problem

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