Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Water

• [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Wine, Rivers

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

• And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Water, Wife

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

• All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tired, Men, Water

• 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

• Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Men, Water

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Baby, Wine

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