Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Romance

• Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Romance, Letters, Married

• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

• I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fire, Romance, Heaven

• I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Character, People

• Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Things In Life, Romance

• The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Learning, Past, Romance

• To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Romance, Earth, Born

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

• Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Romance, Stories

• Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Romance, Insecurity, Strange

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

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