Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Peace

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

• 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

• The only defensible war is a war of defense.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, War, Defense

• 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,

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