Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Pride

• Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Laughter, Inspiration, Pride

• Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Personality

• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Would Be, Preaching

• Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Thinking, Idiot

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

• It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Impossible

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

• The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Political

  George Bernard Shaw "The Progressive" (1910)

• Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humility, Pride, Feet

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ballad Of The White Horse”

• Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Thunder

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Pride, People

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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