Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Wealth

• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Money, Clever

  Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves"

• The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Order, Greed

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.112, Ignatius Press

• There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Doe, Honest

• If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rewards, Wealth, Prosperity

• The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Politics, Poverty

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

• There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Successful, Wealth

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