Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Pleasure

• The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Real, Pleasure Seeking

• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Silly, Book

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Pleasure, Crisis

• Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

• Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Food, Offering, Three

• It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doe, Looks, Interviews

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

• I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

• We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Soul, Pleasure, Worthy

• One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Growing, Aging, Pleasure

• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

• The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weed, Gratitude, Appreciation

• It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pain, Mistake, Two

• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Money, Father

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