Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Saints

• There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Culture, May

• Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beer, Dragons, Saint George

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “L'osteria volante”, p.116, Bompiani

• It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Saint, Speak

• The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sea, Voice, Special

• If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dirty, Luxury, People

• Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Generations

• The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Devil, Saint

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

• The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Saint, Looks, May

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